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...been caught cheating on their own wives in the past. Patterson was once suspended from his trooper job for allegedly beating his wife. The pair is also being sued by an insurance company, which charges that Patterson lied about a one-car collision, in which he hit a tree while driving a state car; Perry and a female officer were passengers. Patterson and Perry both admit lying about the incident in depositions. One reason it was important for the White House to head off any erosion in public trust is that Clinton may well need it in weeks to come...
...governed by a jirga, or council of elders, which rules on land disputes, feuds, and matters of clan honor and revenge. As our flotilla pulled up to the riverbank, a jirga and their gunmen were on hand to welcome Mueenuddin. He was escorted up to an ancient shade tree beside a mosque. This was a crucial moment: would the elders allow us to sail upriver, or would they grab all the aid for themselves? Mueenuddin made his case eloquently. A few supplies were dropped off, and I saw a line of men like ants hefting 30-kg sacks of flour...
...intricacies" of getting simple items like ice to "PODs" (points of distribution). Governor Jeb Bush tried to shield his brother George W. Bush's Administration by insisting that people "blame me" for supply shortfalls; but Gloria Williams, 45, whose apartment building was shattered by a massive fallen tree, wasn't persuaded. After the ice that she says she stockpiled before Wilma ran out, she hauled her family to "PODs" in a futile search for more-then waited five hours Thursday in Coral Springs to be told at 1 p.m. in the hot sun that FEMA would not have ice there...
It’s not unusual for Harvard’s politically inclined students to spend a weekend rallying in Virginia or canvassing New Hampshire to help bolster campaigns. But Harvard’s political fruit tends to fall far from the tree. When it comes to helping out back at home, many students favor physics over civics...
Although there are a few Christmas attractions, such as reindeer and sleigh rides on tree farms, the weeks leading up to Halloween and Thanksgiving are the peak season for agritourism, especially in the Midwest, where the phenomenon is booming. Young's Jersey Dairy in Yellow Springs, Ohio, attracts more than 1.4 million visitors a year to its dairy farm, which also offers baseball batting cages, a miniature-golf course and homemade ice cream. Eckert's Country Farm & Stores, near St. Louis, Mo., brings in $10 million annually, about 80% of the farm's revenues, from its restaurants, bakery and gift...