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...rise." Kelly, dressed in a dark blue suit, white shirt and shimmering yellow tie, took a deep breath. He bowed his head, with freshly tightened cornrows, and looked at the ground. There was silence in the courtroom. He reached for the hands of his two defense attorneys. He looked straight ahead. At 2:04p.m., the judge began reading off each count. Finally, Kelly looked to the stand. "Not guilty," the judge's assistant began, reading each count. Kelly looked down, closed his eyes. "Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus," he whispered to his defense attorneys. And suddenly, the self-described...
...more than 100,000 applications for 1,200 new $19-an-hour jobs. My fellow future flight attendants weren't at all what I expected, based on my experience with service-sector jobs--which is to say that none were illegal immigrants. Even more shocking, some of them were straight men. One had been laid off from his long-held job as a local-news producer and saw an ad requiring language skills for foreign flights. One woman used to travel to Hooters restaurants to train waitstaff. She, I believe, just wanted to upgrade her wardrobe...
...joined the straight world, sort of. When I moved into a new apartment a few weeks ago, I decided my financial situation was stable enough that I could start paying for my data again, though my frequent conversations with EarthLink tech support make me miss the old days of trying to crack YouHaveSomNerv's password. In an attempt to achieve some kind of karmic balance, I have left my network open to any neighbors who want to mooch off it. Which, believe it or not, is a violation of EarthLink's terms of service. What do you know...
...other such pacts, he usually makes a point of defending free trade and globalization in the same breath. This can probably be chalked up to a natural penchant for truth-telling--which McCain has at times seemed to possess as well. But however much it appeals to magazine columnists, straight talk on the economy has never been much of a vote getter, so Obama has been keeping that penchant reined in (as has McCain...
...being saluted, issuing and carrying out orders. That's probably not the best prep for a role in which persuasion and cajolery are vital. But none of that dims the luster a former general or admiral can bring to a ticket. Officers tend to be mediagenic: slender, ramrod straight and well spoken, especially on foreign policy matters. (Well, there was the exception of the late James Stockdale, Ross Perot's running mate in 1992, a retired Navy vice admiral who famously opened that year's vice-presidential debate by saying, "Who am I? Why am I here...