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...Brynn, who then committed suicide, in 1998. Lovitz has said that, at the time, he held Dick responsible for the tragedy, because Dick, Lovitz claims, had reintroduced Brynn to cocaine at a party months before the murder, leading Brynn to end a decade of sobriety and start a downward spiral. "I was angry and I was blaming him for what happened," Lovitz said on Dennis Miller's radio show this week. For several years, not much happened between Lovitz and Dick, Lovitz said. Then a year ago, at Ago, a West Hollywood restaurant Lovitz co-owns, Dick showed...
...quibbling already, I'm getting ahead of myself. I acquired my iPhone shortly after 6:00 on launch day at the Apple store in midtown Manhattan, a subterranean emporium located underneath the plaza in front of FAO Schwartz and accessible through a crystal portal leading to a spiral staircase, befitting the fairy-tale mood. The crowd was astounding, hundreds of people (granted, many of them were TV crews) gawking and yelling and cheering the first customers to emerge with their iPhones. In a way it's disturbing to watch America fall in love with a piece of technology again...
...Republican base - is making that difficult. Though his June calendar was packed with around 30 fundraising events, word among Republicans activists is that they have been lightly attended. If he fails to raise even $10 million, it will add to the perception that his campaign has entered a death spiral from which it will be difficult to recover. McCain also had spent heavily in the first quarter, leaving him with only $5.2 million cash on hand, which was less than half of what Romney and Giuliani had left. The campaign says it has worked to reduce its expenses, by, among...
...meantime, Mexicans hope the cease-fire reports hold true - as does Washington, which stands to see border headaches like illegal immigration worsen if the violence continues to spiral. One Mexico City daily reported over the weekend that the nation's gangland murders last week dropped to 44 from the year's weekly average of 60. In any other country, 44 narco-murders in a week might seem terrifying. In 21st-century Mexico it's considered a respite...
...none of these is guaranteed, he admitted, and he warned of possible developments that could be a harbinger of failure. A "spectacular attack by al-Qaeda" could spark a wider spiral of violence that would be hard to extinguish, he said. "They have tried it before, and they will try it again." He also fears a significant increase in Iranian support for those fighting U.S. forces. Finally, he noted that the shaky government of Nouri al-Maliki could just implode...