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...drunk W. and his father almost come to blows: This scene was dramatized, but is based in fact. This "mano a mano" confrontation between father and son is a fairly well-known incident ... Over the Christmas holidays in 1972, by then twenty-six, George W. went to Washington to visit his family. "After Junior arrived at the house, he took his 15 year-old brother, Marvin, to a friend's house, where they both drank too much holiday cheer. On the way home, Junior struck and dragged a neighbor's garbage can noisily down the street before turning into...
...sentiment around the country when its many seconds suggest that Obama is not a Christian. Powell said Americans needed to keep a different image in their minds: that of an American Muslim mother of a Bronze Star-winning Army solider who died in Iraq resting her head on her son's gravestone at Arlington Cemetery. Speaking as a solider who rose from a raw recruit in the 1950s to the Army's top job 35 years later, Powell said, "We've got to stop polarizing ourselves in this...
...Another phone call: a close friend's father, a French-Afghan businessman and relative of the late king, was kidnapped at gunpoint last night, just a few blocks from where Williams was shot this morning. And the kidnappers of the son of another prominent businessman have delivered a ransom note, demanding $20 million...
...seeds to see us through… / We wait to reap what we are due.” On “Hero of War,” Rise Against goes acoustic with a first-person account of a remorseful soldier who asks his son, “Son / Have you seen the world? / Well, what would you say / If I said that you could.” Even on infectious track “Savior,” a song about soured relationships, Tim McIlrath’s lyrics are a swirl of desperation, uncertainty, and dissatisfaction. Throughout...
...other day I got a call from a friend in Europe. He was both frantic and furious. He had just been turned back at New York's JFK airport and sent home on the first flight. He missed his son's wedding - the son is an American citizen. The FBI at JFK was courteous but would only tell him he was on a terrorist list. Nothing the man could say helped. Was he on Maryland's list, now an undesirable alien and permanently excluded from the United States? Probably not, but in this era of secret evidence, who knows...