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...Buffett, the book reveals, isn't always the calm, calculating figure we know as head of the storied investment firm Berkshire Hathaway. He could be an emotionally needy husband and an absentee father, a man who purposely avoids people he fears might criticize...
...life. "He wandered aimlessly around the house, barely able to feed and clothe himself," writes Schroeder. For a while, Susie thought she'd have to go back, but in the end she asked Astrid Menks, a restaurant hostess and sommelier she knew, to check up on her husband. Eventually, Astrid moved in. "Susie put me together, and Astrid keeps me together," was how Buffett came to explain things. After Susie's death in 2004, Warren and Astrid got married...
...Alaska senate inquiry is moving ahead. Last week, after many of Palin's aides and associates, as well as her husband, reversed their positions and refused to testify in front of the legislative committee, French said the senate investigator would issue findings on the matter in early October with or without their testimony. As if to parry that move, Palin's lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, met with the personnel board's investigator on Monday and promised that he would furnish a list of who would be interviewed on Tuesday. The McCain campaign told the Associated Press that after Tuesday...
Klein's column concentrated on Palin as shoring up McCain's right-wing supporters. He missed a key point. She is a blue-collar mom, with a blue-collar hairdo, a blue-collar husband and a blue-collar family. That will have tremendous appeal to blue-collar voters. Jesse Ventura won this segment over when he became Governor of Minnesota, with many voters registering on election day. Attacking McCain for selecting Palin might turn out these voters on election day - for the Republicans. Don Debelak, MOUNDS VIEW, MINN...
...that Oct. 10 was an "artificial deadline" and that the real question of the investigation was already solved in his mind - Palin had the right to fire Walt Monegan because he was an at-will employee. But the other question is still germane: Did Palin, her staff and her husband pressure Monegan to remove Wooten from the force? There's evidence to suggest they did, starting with Palin's own admission that there were over two dozen contacts between her allies and Public Safety officials about Wooten...