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...Columbia almost pick-pocketed by Housman. Columbia gets the ball back and gives it right back to the Crimson as Unger intercepts the pass down...
...train. A passenger appeared, nodded hello and leaned against the metal frame of the open carriage door so as to watch the countryside lazily scrolling by while he smoked a cigarette. "I enjoy the quiet, slow moments," Mathai said, as we snaked our way up a scrubby pass. "Sleeping people are quiet people...
...local hotel changed its name to Kuala Lumpur: "Lake of Mud." In the roads near Lusi, shirtless men dart in and out of traffic selling bags of roasted nuts and dried fruit. They have also installed themselves at certain busy intersections, and demand a small levy to let cars pass. At the top of a levee, the men eagerly tout CDs compiled from video footage of the disaster. "Professional best," promises one CD featuring a photo of a charred, mud-crusted corpse on its front cover. Some of the CD sellers are displaced villagers; others are merely hoping to make...
...When Americans pass over the best-credentialed candidates because their heart or their gut leads them elsewhere, they are only reflecting a visceral understanding that the presidency involves tests unlike all others. They are, perhaps, seeking the ineffable quality the writer Katherine Anne Porter had in mind when she defined experience as "the truth that finally overtakes you." An ideal President is both ruthless and compassionate, visionary and pragmatic, cunning and honest, patient and bold, combining the eloquence of a psalmist with the timing of a jungle cat. Not exactly the sort of data you can find...
...proposed reforms will still have to pass through a deeply divided parliament next week. Government members of parliament have told reporters that they feel obligated to do the minimum to accommodate opposition demands, rather than engage in what U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a recent trip to Kenya, called "real" power-sharing. Meanwhile, the opposition parties do not have enough seats in parliament to approve the reforms alone; another coalition of votes would be needed...