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...interesting that the only person speaking pejoratively about her spouse is Michelle Obama, the wife of a leading contender for the job. She may think she is humanizing Barack by calling him "stinky and snore-y," but these undermining, embarrassing comments make me wonder if she feels a bit threatened by her husband's success and broad appeal. Sally Jorgensen Santa Cruz, California...
...which receives about 50 reports of annoying and harassing phone calls each year, according to police spokesman Steven G. Catalano. The majority of those calls are made during a short time period, Catalano said. “Callers will use a soft voice or a whisper to distract the person they are calling into thinking that it is someone they know calling,” Catalano wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday. The reports are similar to a string of phone calls placed by a man known as the “serial whisperer,” who targeted...
...extraordinarily cautious when I interviewed Head, I remember. People around her - other survivors and support-services providers- were very protective of her. They had warned me to be gentle with her, not to ask too much. One of them had actually asked me to leave an event when this person (mistakenly) thought I was questioning her without permission. That had never happened to me before. So when we finally sat down for our interview, I let Head talk. I didn't, to my regret, ask for specifics. I didn't want to push her to talk about things she wasn...
...Historically, Germany, Japan, and France would be my toughest competition. It’s more unfamiliar than the U.S. setting, because, one, I’ve never been on the world stage before and there in each country there’s a different style. Each person will be the best DJ in their country, so they could be bringing crazy stuff you’ve never seen before, so you’ve got to be ready for everything. In the U.S., you can plan more strategically. If I face this guy that’s kind of weaker...
...Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, one of Europe’s most important politicians, expressed in his personal blog that having one person with Europe’s foreign mandate would answer Henry Kissinger’s famous question: “Who do I call if I want to call Europe?” This relates closely with the true raison d’être for the EU in the first place: keeping the old continent relevant in the modern world...