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...what he did in office. And for that, many Democrats hated him. The Vietnam War lasted longer under him than under Johnson; indeed, by the time of the fall of Saigon, he was out of office. The incursions into Cambodia and Laos cost thousands of lives - millions, when Pol Pot turned Cambodia into a nationwide graveyard. His CIA bore responsibility for the killing of Chile's socialist leader Salvador Allende, on Sept. 11, 1973. And his hounding of political opponents like Daniel Ellsberg was, at the least, ingracious. (See pictures...
...decribed as Aesop-like children's stories to be read to little wizarding kids. "Oh come on!" Ron says - he can't quite believe it. "All the old kids' stories are supposed to be Beedle's, aren't they? 'The Fountain of Fair Fortune'...'The Wizard and the Hopping Pot'...'Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump...
...triple spacing and margins into which you could fit a Hungarian Horntail. None of the stories in it are bad - I don't think J.K. Rowling knows how to be less than charming in print - but they do vary in quality. The first tale, "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot," is the worst, a grimly heartwarming trifle about how you should be nice to Muggles. "Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump," a variant on the emperor's new clothes, isn't much more successful, though it was a relief to me to learn that the stump in question...
...three handhelds with cooking applications, the iPhone has the biggest selection of recipes. With more than 30 cooking programs to choose from in Apple's App Store, you can zero in on anything from Crock-Pot specials to vegan treats. I clicked on one app, Post Imagineering's no-frills Christmas recipes, which downloaded to my phone in seconds for 99¢. And though the thumbprint cookies I made from it got rave reviews, it was mildly annoying to have to tap the screen every few minutes to get it out of power-save mode while I mixed, beat and rolled...
That was why, when the CEOs of the Detroit Three auto companies showed up on Capitol Hill in mid-November to beg for $25 billion in emergency loans, the committees they went to were Senate Banking and House Financial Services--which have jurisdiction over the financial-bailout pot...