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...shiny green dress she staggers through a crowded L.A. bar, talking too loud, running her hand inside a man's shirt and saying, when asked by a stranger what she does, "I like to make people's dreams come true." The next morning she wakes up in the back seat of the stranger's car, he asleep next to her, and opens her mouth in a grimace of disdain, as if trying to spit out the memory of last night and all the other last nights. A 40-year-old alcoholic who keeps embarrassing herself out of gainful employment...
...throats of the people." Sessions didn't help matters by trying to make the case that in some circumstances, those organizations could indeed be seen as un-American, and the Republican-controlled committee voted 8-10 against him. The deciding vote was cast by Alabama Senator Howell Heflin, whose seat both in the Senate and on the committee Sessions would take a decade later. (A day-by-day look at Obama's first 100 days...
...door. Homemade scones, quiches and cakes are served in the main teahouse, which, with its wicker furniture and fanciful birdcages, could serve as the location for a Jane Austen courtship scene. You can also dine in the walled garden, which marries English restraint with tropical abundance. But the best seat of all is in the air-conditioned gazebo nestled amid the foliage. (See 10 things to do in Shanghai...
...Sherzai also got to meet Barack Obama before President Hamid Karzai did. When the then Senator Obama visited Afghanistan last July as part of a congressional delegation, his first stop was the provincial capital of Jalalabad, Sherzai's seat. The visit, arranged by the U.S. State Department, did not appear to have been chosen for any other reason than convenience: Jalalabad is just a half-hour flight from Kabul, and Sherzai's successes in the province were considered emblematic of potential solutions elsewhere in the country. "The Obama visit is what started it all," says Nasir Ahmad, one of Sherzai...
...been in doubt because many in Congress are angry that Pedro Miguel Gonzalez - who has been indicted in the U.S. for the killing of a U.S. soldier in 1991 - remained president of Panama's National Assembly (until September 2008) amid the controversy. Gonzalez lost his Assembly seat in Sunday's election, however, and with it his parliamentary immunity. Although he is unlikely to be extradited to the U.S. (Panamanian law forbids the extradition of nationals), his ouster from the Assembly may remove a significant obstacle to the free-trade pact...