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...abortion question, asked by a young woman near the end of the debate, was a micro-history of the entire campaign. Kerry offered a labyrinthine answer. He was against abortion (as a Catholic) before he was for it (as a public servant). This is known in political circles as the Cuomo dodge--pioneered by former New York Governor Mario Cuomo in the 1980s, unsatisfying to this day. "I believe you can take that position and not be pro-abortion," Kerry said, and Bush actually had a terrific facial reaction--a combination of Are you kidding me? and Huh? "Trying...
MARRIED. AL-MUHTADEE BILLAH BOLKIAH, 30, crown prince of the sultanate of Brunei, to SARAH SALLEH, 17, daughter of a Brunei civil servant and a Swiss nurse; in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. The couple were wed in a five-minute ceremony that marked the end of two weeks of celebrations. Some 2,000 guests attended the wedding, including royalty and heads of state from Asia and the Middle East. The events were estimated to cost $5 million?considered subdued by the oil-rich kingdom's opulent standards...
MARRIED. AL-MUHTADEE BILLAH BOLKIAH, 30, crown prince of the sultanate of Brunei ; to SARAH SALLEH, 17, daughter of a Brunei civil servant and a Swiss nurse; in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. A five-minute ceremony, following two weeks of celebrations, was attended by 2,000 guests including royalty and heads of state from Asia and the Middle East. The events were estimated to cost $5 million - considered subdued by the oil-rich kingdom's opulent standards. RECOVERING. BILL CLINTON, 58; after a four-hour quadruple-bypass operation during which doctors found his heart disease to be extensive, with some...
...tempting to trace this never-look-back attitude to Nair's childhood. She was born into a middle-class civil servant's family in Bhubaneswar, a dirt-poor city in eastern India that is usually given a wide berth by tourists. "Even in Indian terms, it's really remote," she says. Nair was also, she claims, an unwanted child?or, as she puts it, a "contraceptual blunder." In 1957 the Indian government was worried about its exploding population, and her father, a senior bureaucrat, had sworn to limit the family to the two sons they already had. He sent...
...stories about well-born wastrels, among them Bertie Wooster, Wodehouse introduced a valet named Jeeves. He paired the two to solve plot problems in The Man With Two Left Feet (1917), and the rest is history. To the many theories about the characters' origins, McCrum insightfully adds: "The cunning servant?foolish master has been a staple of comedy since classical times, and Wodehouse certainly knew his Plautus and his Terence." By the 1920s, magazines like Liberty and The Saturday Evening Post would pay up to $35,000 to serialize a Wodehouse novel. At the dawn of the Depression...