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Many of the vehicles were TV station vans, their satellite transmitters hoisted like mechanical battle flags. Out of the assorted automobiles poured reporters and burly camera guys, the latter adept at shouldering aside the former for best position at a press conference. At this particular press conference, we were to hear from the family of amateur triathlete David Martin, 66, whose legs were chewed apart by a shark as he was swimming in the Pacific on Friday morning, and who died from blood loss a few minutes later, probably before his swimming companions could pull his snow-white body...
...maligned by graffiti - "Rizzo [hearts] Jenny" - and gnats attack any exposed skin as soon as you set foot on Fletcher Cove sand. Big, bulbous, black stink bugs fearlessly investigate your feet as soon as you sit; if you let them, they'll crawl right up your leg. At the press conference on Sunday, Solana Beach public-safety director David Ott uttered words of wisdom: "This is a marine environment. It's the ocean. It's their environment," he said. Just...
When Martin's family finally appeared at the press conference on Sunday, reporters pocketed BlackBerrys and iPhones and stood at attention with voice recorders. The family and some friends, 15 in all, filed out one by one from behind the city's lifeguard headquarters. Many were carrying solitary sunflowers, and most of the Martin women wept quietly. The men were stoic. Dave Martin's son Jeff, 41, stepped forward to speak. He gave some prepared remarks about how the family appreciated the outpouring of grief but yearned for privacy. Afterward, a reporter asked whether the family would stop swimming...
...offering plate came past at Trinity United Church of Christ. Or perhaps he nodded off during one of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermons. It's hard to think of another reason why the Illinois Senator's former pastor would put on the kind of performance yesterday at the National Press Club that can only be described as a political disaster...
...long interview with Bill Moyers on PBS last week, Wright discussed in detail the history of the African-American religious tradition and presented a calm, erudite counterpoint to the outrageous caricature that most Americans have seen in the short clips of his sermons on YouTube. His speech to the Press Club continued in the same vein, providing context for what he sarcastically referred to as "the unknown phenomenon of the black church...