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...Transportation Security Administration, through a contentious committee vote, though Southers was eventually forced to withdraw for allegedly misleading Lieberman's committee about his personal history. Lieberman is doing all of this with an eye to his own political survival. With 25% approval ratings in Connecticut, he needs to woo moderate Democrats and independents if he's going to have a chance at re-election in 2012. (See pictures of 60 years of election-night drama...
Believe me, I'm no prude. But all the yelling and screaming and woo-wooing becomes grating. These are the fourth Olympics I've covered, and Vancouver drinks Athens, Torino and Beijing under the table. I asked a few journalists who have covered more Games than I have to rate Vancouver on the intoxication scale. Vahe Gregorian of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who has covered eight Olympics, dating back to Atlanta in 1996, agreed with my chart-topping assessment. In reference to downtown Vancouver's main strip of nightclubs, he said, "Granville Street itself is unlike anything...
...Meanwhile, Obama's left flank has deserted him too. Liberals believe the President has already wasted too much time trying to woo a cynical opposition that cares only about dragging him down. Warriors on both sides have rushed to the mattresses to win every petty squabble and 15-minute news cycle. While candidate Obama admirably rejected the artifice and showmanship of politics, even the White House now regularly joins the fray, with press secretary Robert Gibbs often using the briefing-room rostrum to score points. Engaging in such antics might produce a short-term high, and might even yield some...
Does your girlfriend envision you as the Darcy to her Elizabeth? Woo her this Valentine’s Day by taking her on a tour of 1800s romance and the Gore Mansion (built in 1806). A guide in period attire is promised, as is authentic quoting from the masterpieces of Austen herself...
...Kang, 40, is happy with her choice - so happy, in fact, that she now helps her husband Hong Seung Woo with the matchmaking agency he runs to connect North Korean women and South Korean men. Hong opened the business in 2006, a year after he and his wife were married. As of last September, there were officially over 17,000 North Koreans living in South Korea, triple the number from 2004, according to the Unification Ministry, the government agency in Seoul in charge of North Korean affairs. Almost 80% of North Koreans defecting today are women. "This is a shortcut...