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...Jersey was declined by gubernatorial winners Robert McDonnell and Chris Christie, and her avowed congressional candidate, Doug Hoffman, lost in a previously unlosable Republican district. It is, after all, hard to support a person who doesn't know if Africa is a continent or a country. More good news like this, and I might rejoin the party I abandoned...
Cassandra's parents are loving and good at baking, gardening, repairing stuff and other skills that Cassandra and I pay people for. But they're a little too country; they think window screens are for stuck-up people, and not once since I've known them have they been able to use their cell phones. Besides, they live in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. - a town so small, there weren't enough people to stop someone from naming it Hoosick Falls. Cassandra's brother Brian is very into video games and anime and is definitely going to be our choice for guardian...
That's when we thought about my college friend Ben Wu and his wife Kristin. They have a great house in a really nice town near San Francisco that's not all that different from the one we live in. They're good parents to two kids we really like. They share our thoughts and values about religion, education, discipline, family, home, competition, money and not taking things too seriously, and I know they'd love Laszlo as their own child once he was in their home. Besides, Ben was going to have to teach him how to play sports...
...West, what would a conversation with them be about? "Everyone says we have to talk to the Taliban," says Hekmat Karzai, director of the Kabul-based Center for Conflict and Peace Studies. "But when you do, what the hell are you going to say?" It's a good question. The first thing the Taliban would want is a cease-fire, says Antonio Giustozzi, author of Decoding the New Taliban. "They crave the kind of legitimacy that such a cease-fire would bring. They want to be counted as a legitimate force with legitimate grievances." But a cease-fire would mean...
...year, shoppers cut back too. "I don't think anyone had ever lived through that big a swing in consumption in such a rapid period of time," says Stephen Sadove, CEO of Saks Inc. This year, savings are up and credit-card use is down, which is good--sort of. Yet keep in mind that the Pilgrims were barely eking out a living, surviving in squalor. They had no access to credit. Thrift is a great virtue, but a little mindless spending this season couldn't hurt...