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...piquant appearances. While chatting with Unger across the street from the Saudi embassy in Washington, he is approached and quizzed by Secret Service agents. Hearing from Rep. John Conyers that no member of Congress had read the complete Patriot Act before voting for it, he hires a Mister Softee truck and patrols downtown D.C. reading the act to members of Congress over a loudspeaker. Toward the end, he tries to get Congressmen to enlist their sons in the military. Surprise: no volunteers...
...also failed to divulge the truth to another one of her clients, the fifth county commissioner. Lonnie Roberts, a pro-life former truck driver, represents the conservative eastern Multnomah exurbs. A big man with large-frame glasses and a wide plane of a face, Roberts told me he would have gone to the media if he had been told of the marriage plan in advance. He dislikes the idea of gay marriage, but the way the county enacted it bothers him even more: "I would not have stood for the clandestine approach...
...county official called Linn on her cell phone to tell her that Sowle's final opinion had been issued. Linn gave the go order. Back in Portland, commissioner Roberts--who had successfully been kept in the dark since January--heard about the impending marriages on his pickup truck's radio...
Tabloid Tumble Piers Morgan, the flamboyant editor of the U.K.'s Daily Mirror, has survived many a scrape during his tabloid career, but the photographs he published two weeks ago purporting to show British soldiers brutally mistreating an Iraqi prisoner in the back of a truck proved Morgan's undoing. Last week the Mirror's publisher conceded the pictures were fake (the paper claims to have been the victim of a hoax), apologized unreservedly to readers and the military, and fired the editor. Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram told Parliament the pictures were "categorically not taken in Iraq"; the military...
...workers loaded counters into a truck, Sean Leonard, the area director of Chili’s, explained that the restaurant closed Monday after lunch because it did not fit with the chain’s national business model of “free-standing buildings in parking lots...