Word: manning
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...campaign-finance reform what John Brown was to the abolition of slavery: the guy with the ax. So what happens if you have to swing it at yourself? McCain's services on behalf of a major contributor gave an opening last week to George W. Bush, the man who has benefited most, dollarwise, from things as they are. McCain is being asked to explain why he wrote letters to various federal agencies in support of 15 of his top campaign donors. "Somebody who makes campaign finance an issue has got to be consistent," Bush declared, "and walk the walk...
Adam Carolla (The Man Show; MTV's Loveline...
...maybe the oldest story we know about the waters off Cuba, and certainly the most familiar. A man fighting the sea and wresting from it a great victory: his honor. But Hemingway's old man had 80 years to prepare for his high-seas battle...
...man who arrived to carry Elizabet and Elian to the promised land was no Cigaret-boat pro. Lazaro Munero, 24, was a maceta, a hustler. He had been seeing Elizabet since 1997, when she was divorced from Elian's father. In the summer of 1998, Munero and three friends made the trip to America on a tiny boat. But that autumn he returned to Cuba--heartsick, relatives say, to be away from his family and Elizabet. He was thrown in jail, but a few months months later, after his release, he began working to persuade Elizabet to join...
...examination, delivered orally, is stuffed with minutiae: What size shoes does your child wear? Who are his friends? What are his teachers' names? Juan Miguel, sources say, not only passed the quiz, he painted a portrait of a deep and emotional relationship. Investigators found something else as well: a man who still honestly believes in Castro and the system that he built. "This country is where I can teach my son the values I want him to learn," Juan Miguel explained to TIME recently. "This is where I want us to be together." It won't be a life...