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...threatening can a life-threatening cancer truly be when you've already walked the length and breadth of the Valley of the Shadow? Kennedy was born into wealth, nursed on power and indulged in every appetite--but the one luxury denied him was the illusion of immortality. After his brothers John and Robert were assassinated in 1963 and 1968, a suffocating sense of doom settled over him, and many years passed before he realized that his life story would have all its pages...
...final Friday of June, Kelly Collins will marry Paul Hilcoff at the Nashoba Valley Winery in Bolton, Mass. After the ceremony in an orchard, the 60 guests will retire to the vineyard's restaurant, where they'll have a full sit-down meal complemented by wine and beer made on-site. All this will cost $4,500, or $1,500 less than it would on a Saturday. Rather than a wedding gown, Collins will wear a $200 ivory bridesmaid dress. She has ordered wholesale flowers online for $300 to make her centerpieces and, for favors, apple-scented candles from...
...Texas Border Coalition, which includes just about every mayor and local Chamber of Commerce in the 1,200-mile Rio Grande Valley, accuses Chertoff of seizing land to build the fence without first negotiating a fair price. TBC's complaint, filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., also alleges that the Department of Homeland Security may be favoring wealthy landowners by routing the fence away from their property. "I puzzled a while over why the fence would bypass the industrial park and go through the city park," Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, the coalition chairman, says in the suit...
...Just as relevant to the kids, these hipper shows are helping move musical theater out of the nerdy backwater of the high school activities. "The homecoming king and queen at our school are both drama people ? not the football player and the cheerleader," says Stacy Hansen, theater director at Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa. "For so long, if you were in drama, you were a nerd. Now it's the cool thing...
...More troops would be nice. So would a second Forward Operating Base further down the valley that could help defend these tiny villages. His men could easily take the Taliban checkpoint where the farmers are harassed, but for how long? As soon as his company withdrew up the road to Forward Operating Base Zeebrugge, the Taliban would return. A police post would help, or an Afghan National Army presence. These things are coming...