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...kind of cool. I felt pretty privileged. And I had to be real careful that nobody knew I had the manuscript. I kept it in a safe. I had to swear my husband to secrecy. It's very, very, very serious business. Starting with maybe book four or five, every time there was a new manuscript, one of the Scholastic people would fly it out and I'd meet them to pick it up. It always felt like some clandestine meeting...
...huge automobile ferry had left its home port in Tallinn, Estonia, on a routine 15-hour trip to Stockholm. Although the weather had been stormy all night, the crew did not expect serious problems. A band was playing in the Baltic Bar, and the 10-deck vessel churned through the inky waters as it had for 14 years...
...discusses President Bush and his policies is particularly surprising from someone previously presumed to be the most faithful of aides. On the fifth page of the preface McClellan bluntly writes, "History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided - that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder." That blunder, he continues, was one propagated by a "political propaganda machine" that misled the public on the reasons for war with Iraq...
...conservative Institute for Justice in Washington and three liberal Harvard law professors--Elizabeth Bartholet, Randall Kennedy and Laurence Tribe--that aims to have race-matching practices declared unconstitutional. Argues Tribe: "Leaving African-American kids in foster care rather than allowing them to be adopted by loving parents inflicts very serious harm on children...
...about the message we send to people about the best ways to deal with their problems. If you take a painkiller, it's hard to ignore the cause of the pain - if it's something like toothache or appendicitis - because eventually [the condition] is going to get really serious. I guess the worry is that, with antidepressants, you could actually, in the long term, avoid dealing with underlying problems - and that we would do a disservice to our citizens if we gave them that option. [By providing antidepressants for sale over the counter,] you're inadvertently promoting a particular path...