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...saying Kentucky doesn't offer its share of distinctive intoxicants. Bourbon and tobacco have long been popular drugs here, and even in these abstemious times, a well-known member of the political class will occasionally pour his visitors a glass of moonshine from a Mason jar with plumped cherries bobbing on the bottom...
When the skies turned dark at the end of last month, Supa Suparman knew it would pour. What she didn't know was how much or how fast. By the next morning, her clothes were floating down the alley and her one-room house had filled with water to a depth of 2 m. "All I have left is what I'm wearing," moans the 42-year-old mother of four, now living with 1,000 others in a cemetery, the highest point in one east Jakarta neighborhood. Within a week, 50 cm of rain, double the amount that normally...
...mother, one becomes something of an expert on scary disease names. Shortly after giving birth, some switch in your brain opens up a cerebral vat into which you pour the name of every horrific childhood ailment yet discovered. And they stay there, stewing and bubbling over every time your child looks the tiniest...
...proposes for fiscal year 2003. The GOP, after all, is supposed to be the party of fiscal responsibility. Yeah, there's a war and a recession to fight, but Republicans fret that when Bush opens the door slightly to a deficit, the Democrats will open it wider to pour in money for all their spending programs. The budget deficit could balloon and GOP congressmen would catch as much heat for the red ink as the Democrats...
...September 11 tragedy - which should have been an uncontroversial public service - began as a joke and ended as a potential tragedy. The initial press release listed the wrong 800-number, sending callers not to the commission but to a love connection service. Then, once calls began to pour in, the commission did not forward to Justice the reports it collected. In a scathing letter to the commission, assistant attorney general for civil rights Ralph Boyd wrote: "Simply put, your refusal prevents the Department of Justice from investigating or otherwise following up these reports in order to ensure that people...