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Back in 2000, when it signed the deal, the publisher bought the public Rosie: the cuddly, funny, blue-collar Long Island girl who mother-henned the world, gave lavishly to charity, acted like a star-struck kid meeting her idols--and like Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart, had a daily TV show to promote herself and her magazine activities. What they got, two years later, was a new Rosie: a heftier, more assertive, left-wing, out-of-the-closet lesbian--with no show...
When President Bush spoke last week about his vision of spreading democracy in the Middle East, it might have struck some as a canny effort to wrap his Iraq troubles in a fresh burst of soaring rhetoric. But the speech grew out of a trip in June to Aqaba, Jordan, where Bush met with then Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and Israel's Ariel Sharon. Speaking later to Republican congressional leaders, Bush "went off on a riff," says an official who was there, about the promise for democracy in the embattled region. California Representative Chris Cox issued an invitation...
...sophomore goalkeeper Ryan Johnson had other plans. Guessing right all the way, Johnson moved even before the ball was struck. He dove and stretched out his left hand, knocking the shot—which had been destined for the upper right corner of the net—away...
After a Penn shot drew Johnson out of the goal, the first Crimson clear bounced off a chest and landed right back at its source, dangerously close to the net. A second back struck the ball. Once again, it bounced off a Penn player’s chest...
...first time I really listened to the third Santana album I was struck not only by the pyrotechnic guitar playing—infinitely superior to his current brand of lazy, guest-appearance cheese—but by the fantastic, almost certainly drug-inspired cover of the old vinyl album. The image, of an almost human man conjuring the universe against a dark lunar landscape, fit the music perfectly, or at least complemented it well. I was distinctly disappointed a few years later when I bought my own copy on CD: the cover, shrunk to CD size, looked tacky and painfully...