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...this year. The President, who will spend next weekend in California, is not heading for the ranch, even though this is perhaps the most pleasant time of year there, with inviting running weather and the bluebonnets in bloom. Instead, he left Thursday afternoon for Camp David, with aides smiling and waving at the Marine One chopper, knowing that they'd be getting some family time over the long weekend. The First Lady, Laura Bush, brought her mother, Jenna Welch, back from Texas this week for the festivities, and the President previewed the guest list for a well-wisher he stopped...
...surveillance by adding more border guards, deputizing retired police officers to patrol the frontier and authorizing citizen militias to hunt and capture illegal border crossers. Inhofe argued that the conditions in which captured border jumpers are held--he mentioned the provision of sports facilities and good food--are too pleasant to deter aliens from crossing into...
...reach her," says an aide. So what text messages should her colleagues, coalition partners and electorate be sending? "Well done," for a start. But, also, maybe: "Get a move on." Unless the Merkel Factor translates into tangible economic improvements, the next batch of sms might not make for such pleasant reading...
...making great strides in cross-strait relations.” A graduate of Harvard Law School, Ma joked that he almost named his daughter Cambridge Ma “exactly 30 years ago” when he was studying here. “It’s a pleasant home-coming for me,” he added. Ma told the audience that democracy is not a precondition for him to visit mainland China, but he would like to build more consensus before deciding to visit. “I’m a little bit surprised but pleased...
...Duet?” features a pair of vocalists exchanging proclamations of love—but, as one of the singers reminds us, “one will never forget all the clichés and lies.” Despite the oft-caustic lyrics, these songs are a pleasant listen. For longtime Merritt listeners, they won’t do much that previous Magnetic Fields albums haven’t done already and better (or 6ths albums, or Future Bible Heroes albums, or any of Merritt’s other projects), but “Showtunes?...