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With Hugh under her roof, Hillary as First Lady continued to be hall monitor, trying to get Hugh to quit playing Upwords, the President's favorite board game, until all hours of the night. She imposed a strict Dean Ornish menu on the household--salmon, chicken, blueberries and bran--one that left everyone but her and Chelsea hungry. Hugh was known to steal off to McDonald's or organize family outings from Camp David to the Cozy Restaurant in nearby Thurmont, Md., for a fix of fries. As time went on, in ever larger sweat clothes and golf sweaters bearing...
Hawaneen arrived at the Herat camp a month ago after selling his plow and even the tin roof off his house to pay for the journey. Now, in the barren, sand-blown camp, Hawaneen crouches against the wind and watches in dumb agony as a Muslim cleric lays the bony, starved corpse of his eight-year-old son on a plastic sheet spread on the ground and washes him for burial...
...Then one of my two free phones broke, and the company would not replace it. My fault, because I'd stupidly assumed that two free phones meant two free working phones. Or take my wife, who called an electronics store and had it install a satellite dish on our roof that would, allegedly, bring in zillions of channels but, in reality, brought in only seven. Her fault, because she assumed that the store would repair the transponder and aim it properly. As it happened, the store was just the "agent" for a regional company. What services did this company provide...
...change! No change!" As soon as they see him, the hot, sweaty crowd starts shouting, pushing to get close, trying to touch him. A sea of hands waving thumbs-up draws President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni out through the sun roof of his white Land Rover to return the victory signal. Dressed in suit and tie and wearing his trademark wide-brimmed green safari hat, he grins at the warm reception. Even in multitribal Uganda, this is not your everyday political rally. The Karamajong are colorful, usually naked cattle rustlers straight out of the pages of National Geographic magazine. Full Story...
...shouting out encouragement to a woman trapped in the debris as others tried, in vain, to reach her; her last words to him were: "Be good to your family." Another man dragged two of his children out of their home and had just returned for the third when the roof came down; he and the child inside miraculously survived, but the two outdoors were crushed by a collapsing wall...