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...every night, cradling the phone in her bed, might ever look at her as more than a friend. It's a tricky balancing act, but for a first-time novelist, Hermann is remarkably sure-footed. When at age 14 Ruby accompanies her father, a Holocaust survivor, on his first visit to the camp where he was interned as a boy, she tries to imagine his experience but finds that "it was impossible; she could not make the leap." No sooner has she admitted failure than she notices, walking beside him, that her strides and his are suddenly in synch...
...will help him win. During the Florida primary, he charged, dubiously, that his chief rival for the nomination, Mitt Romney, supported a "timetable" for withdrawal from Iraq, a claim based on a misreading of a single quote. More recently, he claimed in a television commercial that Obama canceled a visit to wounded troops because television cameras were not allowed. The charge lacked evidence, but it still managed to knock the Obama campaign off message. "The status quo means McCain loses. He's got to change things," says Peter Brown, an independent pollster at Quinnipiac University who believes, like many others...
...vacations. It was a family affair. His wife Natalya, a gracious, fearless woman, made it her priority to ensure that he could work undisturbed. His sons helped too. There were letters to answer, writings to translate. Even a non-Russian-speaking guest could chip in. On a summer visit, I was dispatched to pick raspberries for dessert. We ate them with ice cream. The Solzhenitsyns spoke Russian at home, but they were good Vermonters; they kept Ben & Jerry's in the freezer...
When Barack Obama was last in Hawaii to visit his grandmother and sister, it was December 2006, and he was still a relatively unknown junior Senator from Illinois deciding whether to run for President. Obama was shocked, then, when a paparazzi shot of him emerging from the Pacific Ocean on one of his favorite Oahu beaches ended up in PEOPLE magazine. The episode added privacy concerns to his deliberations and gave him a taste of the fishbowl that is the Oval Office (as well as the campaign to get there...
...important than the prosperity of their familes, even their mothers," said Shi Dagang, the Communist Party secretary for Kashgar prefecture. "They were trying their best to perform jihad." The scene of the incident: the entrance of the Yijin Hotel, a dingy yellow three-story building with reflective windows. A visit to the site a day after saw a few police milling around but nothing to give the impression that the spot was more significant than others in this highly-guarded city...