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...Harry, second son of Prince Charles and Diana, the prospect of escaping the relentless stalking of the British press on deployment abroad with his colleagues from the elite Household Cavalry could seem like a welcome spell of R&R. Yet the news delivered in a written statement by the British Defense Secretary Des Browne to MPs on Thursday that the 22-year-old prince, third in line to the British throne, will soon find himself patrolling a stretch of southeastern Iraq poses anything but a relaxing prospect for army chiefs. Browne announced that the junior royal will go on active...
...minute we were down by two, the next minute we were down by 12,” said sophomore point guard Drew Housman. “It was us being stagnant on offense, and them being relentless penetrating the ball and hitting some good shots—especially their big guys hit some tough fadeaways...
...Look for more unusual flavors to come-including a concoction Allen is working on that contains padan leaf. Strolling the streets of Singapore, this relentless experimenter characteristically finds his eye drawn to the fiery colors of a stall displaying various types of chili. "Chili beer," Allen muses. "That could work." You get the sense that he's only half-joking...
DIED. Harriett Woods, 79, Missouri politician whose relentless campaigning and razor-thin loss in a 1982 bid for the U.S. Senate, despite being overwhelmingly outspent, inspired the creation of the grass-roots fund-raising group Emily's List; of leukemia; in University City, Mo. Woods won the Democratic nomination over banker Burleigh Arnold, who had the backing of party leadership. Her high-profile candidacy, which culminated in a loss to John Danforth by 26,247 votes, sparked Emily's List--short for Early Money Is Like Yeast--which in the last election cycle raised $46 million for women candidates nationwide...
...Franken has been running for office since the late '70s, when he would appear on SNL's Weekend Update segment and announced, "Vote for me, Al Franken. You'll be glad you did!" In his possibly ironic role as a relentless self-promoter, he proclaimed the 1980s "the Al Franken Decade." In 1999 he published Why Not Me?: The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency, the myopically prophetic account of how he won the 2000 election and shortly thereafter lost the presidency (though his attempt to personally kill Saddam Hussein sounds like a natural poll...