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Kennedy endorsed Hillary Clinton for President in November 2007 and was later joined by his sister, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend '73. Those endorsements caused a split in the Kennedy family when Mass. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and Caroline Kennedy '80, daughter of President John F. Kennedy '40, both endorsed Barack Obama in early...
...Biden's personal story is solid and compelling. His father was a car salesman and his mother raised him, his two brothers and a sister. He went to school and practiced law in Delaware before running for local government and winning an upset Senate victory in 1972. While Christmas shopping a month later, his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident that also injured his two sons. Biden almost resigned, but was convinced by Senate leaders to take the position, and has commuted daily to Washington ever since...
Once at sea, the activists - who include an 81-year old nun, a Greek leftist parliamentarian and the sister-in law of ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair - braved a squall and a bizarre communications blackout, which they say was caused by lsraeli electronic jamming, and which thwarted a rendezvous in heaving seas between peace activists and a ship of journalists...
...Last week I went to Jowzjan province where I met an 11-year-old girl who had been raped about six months ago. Her family had to pay bribes to pursue the case in the courts. Her sister told me that under the Taliban that man would have been executed. "We want the Taliban back," she said, "because they gave us justice." The Taliban did provide that sort of justice. They were much better in that way. Yes, that's true...
...course, not everyone sticks to six. NPR's On the Media held a 12-word-novel contest, which yielded several gems, including listener Brenda J. Wolfe's "My sister had written Father's obituary. He is survived by one daughter." The contest was held last November in honor of National Novel Writing Month, a.k.a. NaNoWriMo...