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...Alaskan mother hit the jackpot. Gov. Sarah Palin? No, Kaylene Johnson, the author of Sarah, the first book to be published about Palin. The slender volume, written well before John McCain chose Palin as his running mate, sold some 10,000 copies when it originally came out in April. Now, with 350,000 copies in print and counting, the book has rocketed onto the New York Times bestseller list...
...politics in the Bush-Cheney war room in 2004. Schmidt specialized in the generous dispersal of indignation - like a friendly neighbor handing out Halloween candy - to a quote-hungry press. "It is simply outrageous that John Kerry is questioning people's patriotism," he told the New York Times in April of that year. "John Kerry will say anything for his political benefit," he told Reuters that October. "Now his campaign surrogates have taken those attacks to a new low," he told the Philadelphia Inquirer that November...
...when he became the Republican nominee, his across-the-board opposition suddenly became inconvenient. Aid to Israel and military housing is funded through earmarks, so McCain had to make it clear he'd protect those programs from cuts. He made a similar exception during his anti-poverty tour in April, when he visited an African-American community in Alabama that got ferry service through an earmark. He then met a Pennsylvania woman with ovarian cancer who was being treated through a clinical trial funded by an earmark; he assured her that program was worthwhile too. "It's the process...
...William, who is a lieutenant in the army, learned to fly through a brief training course with the RAF this spring. A storm of controversy was raised in April after it was revealed that he used official helicopter training missions to visit the property of his girlfriend, Kate Middleton, and fly his brother to a bachelor party. According to British newspapers, those sorties resulted in the head of the RAF, Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy, demanding a "line-by-line" explanation of their authorization and left columnists debating whether the royals' involvement with the military was a sideshow...
...Host" The Atlantic April...