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...skewed: "The pasta scotta: pasta swimming in garlic sauce. It's Italy as hell. Heavy stuff. You go to Sicily and how corrupt! Half of that is true." In his book, Severgnini cooks up a compromise dish: "Let's just say that Italy is an offbeat purgatory, full of proud, tormented souls, each of whom is convinced he or she has a hotline to the boss...
...Bill was headlining a fund raiser for Hillary's political-action committee. He opened by saying he wanted to make three points: first, that his absent wife, who was attending to the people's business down in Washington, has been "a really good Senator"; second, that he was "particularly proud" of her for bucking a partisan atmosphere to offer constructive solutions on energy, the environment, health care and education; and third ... well, his third point turned out to be about the "epic struggle" of his presidency. For the rest of Bill's 20-minute speech, his wife merited an individual...
...much on the first, second, third date: "I was abused as a child." "I don't get along with my parents." "I was in rehab." Let him fall in love with your more stable traits first. Let him fall in love with the things you're a little more proud of. Leave that other information on the back burner. It's not being dishonest; it's simply pushing those not-so-great traits aside. We do that too often, and we scare the guy off. He starts to think, oh gosh, this girl has way too much baggage...
Could Arkansas - land of rich barbecue, fried chicken and a famously overindulgent former President - turn out to be a rare bright spot in America's battle against child obesity? That was the proud claim made in a new report released on Wednesday by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement and Governor Mike Huckabee, who is himself renown for losing 110 lbs. while in office...
...about the allegations surrounding Haditha. But it may be a sign of the risks that candidates could face in criticizing U.S. troops as a midterm election approaches. "As a retired Colonel in the U.S. Marines," said Kline, who faces Coleen Rowley, the FBI whistleblower, this November, "I am especially proud of the sacrifices our men and women make day in and day out, especially in combat situations. And as a Marine Officer I would never want to publicly insinuate, implicitly or explicitly, that I have prejudged what took place that day on the battlefield or afterwards...