Word: righting
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...Harper; 386 pages), her third memoir, picks up right where Cherry left off, and it stands as a testament to the impossibility of shrugging off your own beginnings. Karr's childhood catches up with her, turning her into a self-doubting, raging alcoholic incapable of a healthy partnership with her über-WASP husband Warren Whitbread (not his real name). Thankfully, Lit also details the ways she went from suicidal to sober, got divorced and got published...
While the original stimulus bill provided much-needed relief for a staggering economy, Obama is right to assert that we must ânot let up in our efforts to take every responsible action to get the economy growing.â These proposals represent exactly the sort of responsible spending needed to bring back economic prosperity...
Well, we sure hope you're right, Larry. Because some of us would love to have a job when we graduate...
...command enough respect from the various factions to hold the military together, then he may emerge as the new leader. Crisis Group, a Brussels-based watchdog that closely follows the situation in Guinea, believes that's a real possibility. But Guinea's opposition is skeptical of his chances. "Right now, there is no government in Guinea," says a prominent politician by telephone from Conakry. "There is no discipline within the army at all." He calls for an international peacekeeping force to protect civilians from the military power struggle. (See the top 10 underreported stories...
...hurled a rock-hard souvenir into Silvio Berlusconi's face, the dazed and bloodied Prime Minister stood up on the edge of his car so the crowd could get a good look. An aide would later say that Berlusconi, 73, instinctively wanted to assure everyone that he was all right. You might also imagine that the embattled leader was eager for the world to see that - thanks to his haters - he was in fact not all right...