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...Kucinich.) Other Democrats want in on the eponymous ice-cream war: Joseph Lieberman's staff called TIME to stump for the creation of "Key Limeberman Pie," for "the sweet fellow who wants everyone to get their fair share of the pie," while John Kerry's staff members want a scoop of "Red, White and Blueberry Harley-Riding Kerry," a reference to a recent photo of the Massachusetts Senator astride a hog. The possibilities are endless...
...CABIN FEVER Get the real scoop on "life in the freezer" from this site, diligently maintained by a gossipy (and anonymous) employee of McMurdo Station, Antarctica's largest base. Pages are packed with entertaining complaints about mail and food and lots of vicious, small-town backbiting...
...Orwell's second wife Sonia, The Girl from the Fiction Department by Hilary Spurling (Penguin; 208 pages). These additions to the mountain of Orwelliana provide new intelligence on one of literature's most puzzling figures. Like the time he used black magic to kill somebody. In a minor literary scoop, Bowker reports that the teenaged Eric Blair made a wax effigy of a hated fellow student at Eton, contemplated sticking pins in it but settled for tearing off a leg. The victim, an older boy named Philip Yorke, promptly suffered a broken leg and was dead of leukemia within months...
...Thai agents were investigating possible domestic JI operations as early as January 2002, when one of the country's most senior intelligence officials was alerted by his counterparts in Singapore to the presence of suspected JI operatives in southern Thailand. Acting on the scoop, the official dispatched field agents to the porous southern border town of Sungai Kolok to check assertions that four JI members had fled through Malaysia and into southern Thailand, a Muslim stronghold in a predominantly Buddhist country. He didn't expect the agents to find much. But when they combed through embarkation cards of individuals...
...Network, Peter continues on his nine-year quest to establish a bona fide home front for the more than 2,000,000 American dads who have left the cubicle for the small desk in their den. But when I called Peter to get the latest at-home daddy scoop, he glumly informed me that no new data exists. ""The Census tries to track us," he said, "but their efforts fall short. They never ask who the primary caregiver is." According to a national study conducted by University of Alabama professor Jordan I. Kosberg, heterosexual men (which would undoubtedly include fathers...