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...Edwards announcement was far from a surprise, since he has virtually been running since the end of the last election. But the setting, and the tone, were highly unusual. The former North Carolina Senator and Vice-Presidential nominee flew from his home in Raleigh to spend three days in New Orleans, without his family, volunteering at a food bank and then dumping dirt in the yard of a house in the Ninth Ward area of the city that was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. On the third day, dressed in jeans and tennis shoes, and standing in the muddy backyard...
...this" began on Dec. 16, when an association known as the Children of Don Quixote set up around 100 tents for the homeless alongside the canal. The organization then called on more affluent Parisians to come spend time - or even an entire, freezing night - at the camp to feel what the poor experience. Brothers Jean-Baptiste and August Legrand founded Children of Don Quixote, and laid out nearly $4,000 in personal savings to dramatize the situation of the homeless during a French pre-electoral season in which poverty seems conspicuously absent from the political debate. Since then, additional homeless...
Here's a no-brainer prediction for 2007: North Korean negotiators will spend the year driving their American counterparts crazy. They will also manage to squeeze some concessions out of the U.S. while giving nothing substantial away themselves, and in the meantime continue developing an arsenal of nuclear weapons. That may sound a little pessimistic; after all, Pyongyang did return to the negotiating table this week after boycotting the talks or nearly a year. But after the resumed six-party talks aimed at bringing the North's nuclear program to an end concluded in Beijing, Friday, it was depressingly clear...
...mail. Krawciw’s collection also boasts rare maps of Crimean War battle plans and propaganda maps. “One of Krawciw’s rules of thumb—which he seemed to have violated occasionally—was that he never wanted to spend more than $50 on a single map acquisition,” Seegel said. Now, though, the collection is thought to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. according to Lubomyr Hajda, the associate director of HURI...
...that John is home around the clock, I have been able to spend some quality time with him when he’s not in that deep, dreamy state of mind brought on by his new lifestyle. Whether organizing Matthew’s collection of herbs into plastic bags, watching Ashley set records in track, or dining out at Subway with Jessica, I always find time to reflect on how truly blessed our family...