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...Maverick In her article on Cindy McCain, Nancy Gibbs writes, ?Google her name plus trophy wife, and you?ll get something like 18,000 hits.? Actually, you get 21,600. But I don?t know just what this is supposed to indicate. If you Google ?Michelle Obama? and ?trophy wife,? you get 23,600 hits. Frank Wershing, Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania...
What could be dismissed as just too grim is checked by the band's obvious sense of humanity. The hope-filled Geraldine at first seems like the recounting of good deeds by some spiritual guardian, until the chorus reveals, "I'll be the angel on your shoulder/ My name is Geraldine, I'm your social worker." Think R.E.M.'s Everybody Hurts the first time you heard...
...center in the room, before several semicircled rows of students. "What are the principles we can glean from this case?" he'd often ask as he began each class. Sometimes he'd wait for students to voluntarily make their arguments; other times he'd "cold call" them by name. Obvious answers wouldn't work. Nor would a simple "Yes, I agree." It was like a conversation...
...face of mounting criticism, Ortega has escalated his religious rhetoric, even adopting holy titles for government programs: His new microcredit program is called "In the Name of God!" - making any attempt at criticism akin to blasphemy...
...Musharraf-era Pakistani official concurs, although the idea of U.S. soldiers fighting in Pakistan is so toxic that he asked that his name be withheld for fear of political repercussions. "Quite frankly, if Pakistan has the desire to carry out an action but doesn't have the capability, asking someone else to help makes sense," he said. Selling the idea to a Pakistani public already hostile to the U.S. war on terrorism, however, will be a lot more difficult. When asked how he would promote the idea, he just shrugged and smiled. With Musharraf out of the picture, selling Pakistanis...