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...Indian food; Raitt's desire for leftover tofu was not universal. She presses the spinach dish on everyone. "Try the saag." To unwind, the group plays Name the Worst Band Ever. (Their nominations are strictly off the record.) One by one, Raitt, the other four musicians and two managers slink off to sleep in their separate bunks, each with a curtain for privacy. Raitt loves the routine. "It's like being at camp all the time," she says, before drawing her curtain closed...
...worth scuttling a bill worth $216 billion in economic stimulus over three years' (Don't ask how it got that big or that long, but that's what currently on the table.) Is it worth it to Daschle and Dennis Hastert and Bush to stick to their guns and slink out of town "not having done the people's business...
...actors we can deal with, who can enforce treaties and achieve our aims. Unlike private armies or loose terrorist networks, states—even ones that sponsor terrorism—have interests in self-preservation that run counter to the suicide-bomber ethic. A state can’t slink into a cave for several months, emerging only to carry out some new monstrosity...
...frightening lessons America has learned since Sept. 11, one of the scariest must be how absurdly easy it was for the bad guys to get into the country and stay. The hijackers didn't slink across the border at midnight or flash expertly forged passports; 13 of the 19 entered this country legally, on tourist, business or student visas. More than 7 million foreigners enter the U.S. on visas each year, and close to 3 million of them overstay their visas, just as three of the terrorists did. The Immigration and Naturalization Service, the federal agency charged with screening those...
...children is constantly wondering, Can that possibly be true? Does his father really hoard expired foodstuffs and eat them rotten? Is his brother Paul truly the profane white trash Sedaris describes? Could his mother have actually been that surly? Where other memoir writers, even the funny ones, slink to the sentimental, Sedaris heads the other way. And yet he portrays these characters with unjudging sympathy. He's tender about them...