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...bushes over there? Last week at a party, Phil Crane was on his hands and knees throwing up in those bushes." Crane was a senior, archconservative Republican congressman from Chicago who entered alcohol treatment in 2000 and lost his re-election bid in 2004. Whether this was a dramatic touch or a true story is unclear. Asked about the tale today, Crane laughed. "Oh, geez, I don't recall any such incident. I don't recall even being at a party at his house. That's not to say that conceivably I wasn't, years ago." (Crane adds that...
...Thankfully, stories of the alleged excesses of other days were as wild as it got for us that night. Foley, as far as I saw, behaved himself. After we left, I was in touch with him from time to time as a friendly news contact who was always good for a laugh. He once gave me a story-making quote for a scoop in Legal Times about another scandal. It was an account of another G.O.P. congressman saying, at a closed-door January 1997 Republican Conference meeting, that then-Speaker Newt Gingrich's own attorney had charged that Gingrich...
...Mylo may be the best designed Skype phone out there, but $350 means you had better also use it as your iPod, your family photo album and your personal journal. If you are interested in Skype - most popular among expatriates who want to keep in touch with the home soil without going broke - but don?t like sitting in front of your laptop, there are some other Skype phones soon to hit the market...
...Democrats have launched a coordinated attack on Taylor for being more concerned with the interests of the G.O.P. and the White House than his home district. "Congressman Taylor has been a rubber stamp for the President and the Republican leadership and in many cases he has been out of touch with western North Carolina priorities," Sarah Feinberg, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told TIME. She pointed to his recent non-vote during the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Taylor had originally said he would vote against the free trade agreement with Central America - which Shuler...
...There was a touch of blame-the-victim in some Muslim reaction, too. Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Mosque of Paris and president of the French Council of the Muslim Religion, told TIME that Redeker had made "grave errors" in treating questions of religion in a "purely subjective manner." But, he said, "we have to respond with arguments, not threats of violence. I deplore the situation...