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...Preacher and Provocateur Hasan's path began to twist about the time he attended the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Va., one of the largest mosques on the East Coast and home to a charismatic Islamic cleric named Anwar al-Awlaki. Born in New Mexico in 1971 to Yemeni parents and educated at Colorado State University, al-Awlaki was often portrayed as a mainstream, moderate Muslim cleric who asserted that terrorists claiming to be good Muslims had "perverted their religion." But the perception of al-Awlaki shifted as intelligence officials began connecting the dots: they found that...
Soon she will hit the road and make her pitch to anyone who will buy it. Her three-week book tour launches in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Nov. 18 and takes her to places such as Roanoke, Va.; Bloomington, Minn.; Noblesville, Ind.; Rochester, N.Y.; Fort Bragg, N.C.; Washington, Pa.; and the Villages in Florida, where she drew a crowd of 60,000 in September 2008. Publisher HarperCollins, which paid Palin a seven-figure advance for her memoir, plans an initial print run of 1.5 million copies. There are plenty of ways to move the product. Pledge cards placed on every...
...reckless. He rarely keeps to agreed party lines, recently incurring the wrath of Conservative leader David Cameron by going dramatically off-message on the party's European Union policy last month, provoking a Cameron aide to send him a Mafia-style text message: "La vendetta è un piatto che va mangiato freddo," or "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." Johnson, using the florid turn of phrase that is his hallmark, continues to insist his relationship with Cameron is one of "glutinous harmony." (Read "David Cameron: The U.K.'s Next Leader...
...hear their nominee speak. For many in the excited crowd, it's their first political event. "This one feels big because the whole country is paying attention to it because it's a change in the attitude: people are fed up with Washington," says Lisa Manser, 42, a Leesburg, Va., teacher who had knocked on doors as a campaign volunteer for the first time in her life earlier that...
...intimate portrayal of our troops broke my heart. In the 1960s, Pete Seeger wrote, "Where have all the soldiers gone?" and lamented the government's choices: "When will they ever learn?" A lot has changed since Seeger wrote those words, and then again, nothing has changed. Tracy Leverton, Vienna, Va...