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...making misery tedious." Hannah Luckraft's misery is making her drink herself to death: Paradise opens in hell, in the kind of hangover that is most quickly cured by getting drunk again. Her career - "something in cardboard" - is hanging by a thread, her grasp on reality starting to slip. Her loving family, in particular her brother Simon, can only watch her self-destruction in horror. Kennedy plumbs the mind-crushing depths of alcoholism and the painful bends of drying out, but allows the blessings Hannah finds in the company of fellow drunks: "We study to move like wirewalkers, all mesmerising...
...accounts, the combination of Edwards and quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick has lost none of its potency during the off-season. Edwards’ speed should allow him to slip behind the Crusaders’ coverage with relative ease, and if he is open, Fitzpatrick will have little difficulty finding him. The duo shamed several cornerbacks last season with perfectly placed balls lofted long down the middle of the field—often on broken plays—and Holy Cross’ secondary shouldn’t expect to do much better. If Edwards happens to catch a pass with defenders...
...Bush's chief couturier but also with her daughter-in-law Laura and, on one occasion, Hillary Clinton. In interviews and in his new book, Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed), Scaasi ruminates easily on the comeliness of Mamie's bosom or how Barbara looks in nothing but a slip. Yet there is one topic he considers inappropriate to discuss--with either his Washington wives or the public--and that is politics. "Clothes have nothing to do with politics. You dress someone because they like your clothes and because they look well in your clothes," he says. "Fashion is aesthetic...
...carried out in the name of Islam are taking place in a country the U.S. had hoped to transform into a model of secular democracy in the Middle East. The chances that Iraq will resemble that ideal soon are all but gone. The danger now is that control could slip into the hands of jihadists--as parts of the so-called Sunni triangle already have--intent on establishing their own fundamentalist regime that could become a breeding ground for terrorists. That gloomy prospect means there will not be any significant U.S. troop withdrawal in the near future...
...party drawing all the media attention this week, Kerry's predicament will probably get worse before it can improve, which is why his recent slide, however modest, is so troubling to Democrats. With just two months to go before Election Day in this remarkably tight race, even a slight slip in the polls could prove fatal. --By James Carney/Washington