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...Around the time of the South Carolina primary, Gardner heard Limbaugh say there was something fishy about Kerry?s Vietnam service but he couldn?t quite put his finger on it. ?I was driving down the road, and I hit that [radio] button and Rush was talking about Kerry and his campaign and how something just didn?t feel right to him,? Gardner recalled, his voice full of conviction. ?Something about what John Kerry did or was doing, just really didn?t set right with him. And you know I served with this guy, and the bottom line...
...when they do, unlike the angsty, screaming opening act the National, the Walkmen look anything but rock ’n roll. Lead singer Hamilton Leithauser, tall, blonde, with classic Upper East Side prep school good looks, and the rest of the band, clad in similarly conservative sweaters and button down shirts, quietly tune...
...model turned CNN and Court TV commentator Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom. At 36 he is the youngest Bay Area mayor since the Gold Rush era. Now, less than 50 days into his tenure, the slick-haired, smooth-talking politician has become both poster boy and punching bag on the hot-button issue of gay marriage. Many Democrats are fretting that a presidential election year is a bad time for Newsom to take a principled and potentially unpopular stand on an issue that might hurt the party in the general election. But throughout all the controversy, the mayor remains almost preternaturally calm...
...packs in a 30-GB hard drive and 256 MB of memory. Available in late 2004, it also has special touches to make navigating its bright 6-in., HDTV-quality display easier. A thumbwheel on the right helps you scroll up and down the page. A unique Middleman button pulls up a short list of commonly used functions for each application so you don't have to wade through menus. And there's a small touchpad for quickly moving your cursor around the screen...
Angela's creative approach to home economics is only the latest chapter in a long and storied female tradition. Wives have probably been hiding money from their husbands since marriage was invented. The Japanese have a special term for the secret funds: hesokuri, variously translated as belly-button money or spindle money. Before the revision of marital-property laws, a state-by-state process that took until the 1930s, American women had good reason to be stealthy about their hoards, says Princeton sociologist Viviana Zelizer, author of the Social Meaning Of Money. All household property legally belonged to their husbands...