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...districting issue will be Houghton's main challenge in his seventh term, and Rowlfe says the 31st district almost certainly will be eliminated...
...then began to organize 10 day conferences for men, often held in the woods, "in which the main study is mythology, and the light it sheds on relationships with women, and with fathers," he writes. "It's just older men talking to younger men and by the middle of the week everyone's crying...
News of Ethiopia's victory in Zalambessa was received with jubilation in the capital, Addis Ababa. Thousands of people gathered in the city's main square and cheered on truckloads of waving Ethiopian soldiers. At the office of the government representative, a computer screen saver read, ZALAMBESSA LIBERATED!! Chief spokeswoman Selome Taddesse popped open a bottle of Ethiopian Champagne as her staff danced to a popular song celebrating past Ethiopian victories. "I've been waiting for this day for two years," said Taddesse...
Robert Caro, the biographer of Lyndon Johnson, thinks the main difference is time. The historian has the time to dig deeper and sift more thoroughly than the journalist can. The historian's relative leisure allows for the correction of mistakes - including errors made by journalists in their haste. Caro was talking about this the other night at the New York Public Library. He spent years prowling around in Lyndon Johnson's early life, he said, only to discover that most of the lore on the subject was all wrong; LBJ had invented it. Caro began getting it right only when...
That day is still a way off, at least in the U.S. America introduced the world to handheld wireless when it outfitted GIs with walkie-talkies during World War II. But in the years since, the country has fallen woefully behind the rest of the world. The main reason we're lagging is that in the early 1990s Europe and Asia adopted a common digital standard called Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) that lets overseas cell-phone users call seamlessly among 120 countries, from Sweden to Singapore. The U.S., by contrast, had several competing standards--slowing adoption of wireless...