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When Minnesota's Senate-recount trial began in January, the state's lone U.S. Senator, Democrat Amy Klobuchar, made a prediction: either Republican incumbent Norm Coleman or Democratic challenger Al Franken would be seated as Minnesota's next Senator by April 11, the day the ice is expected to melt on Lake Minnetonka, a large lake outside the Twin Cities. But after the two campaigns have spent 30 painstaking days in court, Klobuchar is starting to have her doubts. "Pretty soon I'm going to say when the ice melts on the Arctic," she says. (Read "Minnesota, This Is Your...
...frivolous, that it should be the last thing that the homeless and poor are concerned about. But the truth is that they are interested. They do come to the writing workshop table on Friday and they do return the next, with stories written down or with tales to recount out loud. They find something there in the process, what it is exactly, I would not presume to say. All I know is what I see: they do pick up the cameras and go out and take pictures. Art, as understood through the lens of cultural agency, has great social potential...
...roundhouse provided the coup de grace in the three men's action-packed new memoir of their capture, survival and deliverance. Out of Captivity: 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle, published this week by William Morrow, reads like a postcard from a rain forest gulag as the authors recount forced marches, escape attempts, and encounters with snakes, tarantulas and malaria as well as meals of chicken-head soup...
...Cambridge City Council spot vacated by Brian P. Murphy ’86-87 was filled by Larry Ward after a public recount by the Cambridge Election Committee last Tuesday...
...concluding with the initialism-exclamation “FML”, and allowing readers to vote on who “deserved” it and whose life is really “f***ed.”The top anecdotes tend to follow a certain pattern: a brief recount of one of life’s little disappointments, followed by a twist of the knife that makes it just that much worse. For instance, one classic submission reads, “Today, my girlfriend dumped me proclaiming she wanted someone more like her ‘Edward?...