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...Getting four family members, all born-and-bred attention seekers, together on stage was a stroke of evil genius. Ozzy spent the whole evening grinning and waving into the audience, Sharon hyper-enthused like a game show host on speed and Jack looked mortified at having to hang out with his parents. In a family of black sheep, it was Kelly who stood out. Casual, cheerful and poised, she was the glue that held the show together, however precariously...
...business world, that both a post-graduation job and that coveted junior summer internship will prove elusive without a sophomore-year position in finance already on the books, and—whenever possible—a freshman-year internship before that. Whatever happened to lazy summers spent reading by the beach, backpacking across Europe on a shoestring for months, or learning new languages? Why must these opportunities unique to college summers fall by the wayside of Wall Street...
...former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. "Thank you Wisconsin," said McCain, speaking in Columbus, Ohio Tuesday night, "for bringing us to the point where even a superstitious naval aviator can claim with confidence and humility that I will be our party's nominee for President of the United States." McCain spent a good deal of his victory speech framing an attack strategy against Obama, declaring that "I will fight every moment of every day in this campaign to make sure Americans are not deceived by an eloquent but empty call for change...
...effort to escape the thrilling claustrophobia of the presidential campaign, I took a busman's holiday and spent Presidents' Day weekend at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha. But there, too, our campaign was pretty much what everyone was talking about. "Excuse me, Mr. Joe," a confrere from Qatar asked, "what's a superdelegate?" An Iranian businessman told me that "Obamamania" was sweeping the America-loving young people of Tehran. And so I expected a fair amount of passion at the panel I'd been asked to moderate: three Muslims venting on what the Islamic world should expect from...
...match. A day after Musharraf's party crashed to a humiliating defeat in parliamentary elections widely seen as a referendum on the President's rule, calls for him to step down are becoming louder and more numerous by the hour. Aitzaz Ahsan, a lawyer and opposition leader who has spent the past three months under house arrest following Musharraf's crackdown on the judiciary, told the French News Agency that the President is "the most hated man in the country and he must resign...