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...Kerry, he was none too keen when his handlers took him off the road for four precious days so that he could go to "debate camp" in Wisconsin. Hadn't he been training off and on all summer? Hadn't he memorized all those briefing books they kept sending to the plane? Hadn't he spent two whole days in Nantucket, Mass., in August, practicing, practicing, practicing, especially the foreign policy answers...
...time he reached his Boston town house at 10 that night, Kerry was livid. He gathered Cahill, communications director Stephanie Cutter, press secretary David Wade and traveling chief of staff David Morehouse in the messy fourth-floor office where he keeps his most precious Vietnam mementos, including a picture of his friend Dick Pershing, from whom he had been inseparable in prep school and college and who had been killed in a rice paddy by a Vietcong grenade. "Every time they attack what I did on those rivers, they attack people who are not alive to defend themselves," Kerry thundered...
...result, Gmail “invites” have become a precious commodity at Harvard and beyond. Websites organizing the trading of Gmail invites have sprung up in droves, although Wong pointed out that the increasing number of accounts also makes having an account increasingly less exceptional...
...greatest mystery is not why Saddam Hussein let the world assume he had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) but why, with the best intelligence our hard-earned tax money could buy, the U.S. was totally fooled?and as a result has lost more than 1,100 precious American lives. I shudder to think what other surprises await us. J. Connor Boggs Kaneohe...
...They were considered very precious and very exclusive and white boys’s clubs, and we didn’t approve of them at all back then,” she says. “This was the seventies, and affirmative action was starting to be an issue, and it just felt like it was a throwback to an earlier area that just should not have been carried forward...