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When I was a kid, my best friend always called me Esmé. We’d be in Algebra class, taking a test, and she’d pass me a note, and it would read, on the outside, “For Esmé.” And, inside...
...Republicans are planning to test the Democrats' resolve in various pieces of legislation currently in the works. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has introduced a bill defunding civilian trials for five 9/11 conspirators now held at Guantánamo Bay. But it is not clear whether there is a vehicle for his bill to reach the floor in the near future, top Senate aides say, so it may languish. A similar Graham bill was voted down by a comfortable margin last fall...
...Alaska, then consider that your trip may well include sightings of soaring golden eagles, gigantic moose, mountain goats, otters, seals and possibly even an orca in the bay. The ice-climbing is world class, as are the skiers and boarders who congregate from all parts of the globe to test themselves on the steepest skiable pitches and the finest snow to be found anywhere. It doesn't matter where you may have skied or boarded before - the Chugach will make your jaw drop. As Doug Coombs famously said, "Everything else is just practice...
...meanwhile, has built her campaign around promises of a sharp crackdown on embezzling bureaucrats and the oligarchs who have used their political influence to circumvent the law and take control of much of the economy. She blames Yushchenko's "weakness" for the rampant lawlessness. "He didn't stand the test of power," she told TIME in an interview in December. Tymoshenko says she will display no such timidity. At a campaign stop in southern Ukraine in January, she told supporters, "Sometimes I'm envious of China, where they have just what's needed for punishing corruption - they cut off hands...
...court this week to face five counts of inciting hatred and discrimination for describing Islam as a fascist religion and Moroccan youths as violent and for calling for the banning of the Koran. The trial, which resumed Wednesday, Feb. 3, after a two-week break, is seen as a test of the limits of free speech and the famously tolerant country's commitment to protecting minority rights...