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...because I suppose I was interested in money, and thought it sounded like a very glamorous life, which it was." But Christie says he had increasing qualms about what he was doing and realized it wasn't a job he wanted for the rest of his life. So he quit?and became a priest. "Working for money is ultimately unfulfilling," says Christie, 47, from his home for the past three years, the vicarage opposite the Church of St. Michael and All Angels in the south London borough of Blackheath...
...Stevens and Robert Byrd. Letterman's website invited fans to submit their own "Top 10 Rejected Titles for Brokeback Mountain." (Among the winners: Oklahomo, Little Bathhouse on the Prairie and The Good, the Bad and the Fabulous!) Jack's plaintive cry to Ennis, "I wish I knew how to quit you!", is already on T shirts...
Meanwhile, dozens of border guards, National Guard soldiers and other law-enforcement officials in Arizona have been charged with accepting bribes from FBI agents posing as Mexican drug smugglers. Towns in Florida and Connecticut--where Republican John Rowland quit the Governor's mansion in 2004 and went to jail last year for his part in a gifts-for-contracts scheme--are also charging their local officials. The FBI even had a local West Virginia politician facing corruption charges pose as a candidate in a state-legislature election in order to help uncover vote buying and other instances of election fraud...
...serve another term because his work is finished is an absurdity. There is an abundance of work yet to do, as his lieutenant governor will remind us when she declares her candidacy for the job. I wonder if the motive underlying Gov. Romney’s choice to quit has more to do with the reluctance to sacrifice his presidential ambitions upon the altar of a lukewarm record? It says something about the character of the man, and the efficacy of his tenure in office, who fears to run on the remarkable progress he claims his administration has made. JEFFREY...
Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip served the interests of peace, although that was perhaps not why Sharon carried it out. His emissaries suggested that he quit Gaza?a sandy, squalid quarter to which few Israelis feel any attachment?to win goodwill in the world in order to strengthen Israel's claim to its more valued settlements in the West Bank. Media reports recently suggested Sharon was prepared to unilaterally draw a border in the West Bank between Israel and what might become a Palestinian state, emptying Jewish settlements that fell on the wrong side. It's an interesting...