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...Republican delegate looking on, Ted T. Barr, a retired police captain and sheriff from West Virginia, wasn't worried by the group...
...serious relationships--and painful breakups. Both wanted this supercommitment. "I know we live in a tough world," Kelly acknowledges, "but, hey, we're in this for the long haul." Their way of thinking is typical of covenant couples, says Steven Nock, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia who's doing a five-year study comparing Louisiana covenant-marriage couples with the norm. Already, he has noted a divide in their thinking about time: noncovenant couples, he observes, are focused mostly on the present and what they're getting now. Covenant spouses are more apt to look...
...waiter at a local restaurant, Leslie is one of 52 weekend hackers who showed up last week for what its extreme-sports organizers call the "U.X. Open." The grand prize: an invitation to the finals in West Virginia later this year. But not everyone took the tournament seriously. Two of Leslie's buddies stuffed their worn golf bags full of ice cubes and Budweisers...
...Davis, the Virginia congressman who heads the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, called Dick Cheney, who is heading up Bush's vice presidential hunt, and tried to make the case for McCain. Cheney - who some have whispered might be the top pick on Bush's list - reportedly was not sufficiently moved by the pitch. Then Davis collaborated with more than 60 other House Republicans in a letter to the Bush campaign asking that McCain be reconsidered. Sent by fax late Thursday night, there is no indication that it landed on fertile ground or elicited much of a response...
...Seattle's Indianapolis test is any indication, police recruiting efforts are resonating. Experienced cops came from as far as Virginia and North Carolina to take the agency's written and physical exams. Some applicants said they were drawn by the prospects of better lifestyles or more challenging police work. But that $50,000 starting salary was also a powerful draw...