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...most stressed-out superstar on earth. Personal tragedy has weighed on his mind this season. An aunt to whom Tomlinson was very close died suddenly in June, and his wife's aunt passed away later in the summer. On a less personal level, the expectations of a sun-splashed, championship-starved San Diego-- the Chargers have never won a Super Bowl, the Padres a World Series--fall squarely on Tomlinson's stout shoulders...
...Bush war room is going to war with itself. Beginning this month, the young White House and Bush-Cheney-campaign operatives who in 2004 monitored constant live feeds of candidate John Kerry and then mercilessly tormented him about his weakness for shrimp vindaloo, kite surfing and Sun Valley are splitting up and fanning out to competing Republican presidential campaigns--all knowing one another's moves and working from the same playbook. Those going to the John McCain and Rudy Giuliani campaigns already have their first juicy target: Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's evolving positions on abortion and gay rights. "Nobody...
...South Florida fretted about its schools, sprawl and spiraling costs of living half as much as it agonized over its Miami Dolphins, the place might actually be the paradise it claims to be. But for now, it's loudly gnashing its sun-baked teeth at Nick Saban, the oily Dolphins coach who bolted for the University of Alabama this week after telling Miami fans over and over that he would do no such thing...
...December, 2001, Sun Xuede, the man who had been missing for months, was sentenced in a closed trial to eight years in prison for breaking into a government office and embezzling public funds. Sun's family and several of the other elected village leaders dispute the charges, especially since the office he supposedly burglarized...
...Last year, I got a call on my cellphone while at a cocktail party. Shanghai ladies sipped champagne near me, while the men discussed the city's frenzied property market. Sun Xuede had just been released from jail, four years early. "Hello, English-language journalist," he said, using the name they often called me. "I am out of jail now." I told him I was very glad - and then didn't know what to say next. Filling the silence, Sun commented on the weather in his Shandong village. It was chilly, he said, but not as cold...