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...Once you’re president you don’t need to worry about what’s going to be in the Washington Post,” he said. “He’s got a long time before he’s got to start his re-election campaign...
...fictional town of Switchblade, Oregon (Meyer’s book occurs in the real town of Forks, Washington), “Nightlight” consists of 160 pages of thwarted romance and vampire-related angst...
...Joined the Army at 18, just before the start of the Korean War, and wrote medical reports. Later became a police officer in Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas. Says that in Washington he learned to never back down from a fight, earning the department's "most assaulted officer" title in 1957. In Las Vegas, he once pulled over Elvis Presley and a female companion on a motorcycle. (Read "Opponents of the Border Fence Look to Obama...
...considers this a highly cynical view. He was present when Milk brought together thousands of young gays in pre-AIDS San Francisco to change that city's politics. Milk was famous for convening human billboards - long stretches of young gay guys holding signs along busy streets. Coming together in Washington, Jones thought, might spark the same kind of fellowship. Young friends convinced him that Facebook could shorten the organizing time for a national march dramatically. The site played another role: young gays who had connected on Facebook even as uncertain high school students now wanted to meet face-to-face...
Will the march have a lasting effect? The previous gay march on Washington, in 2000, ended in fiasco when money was stolen from march organizers and little follow-up occurred after the attendees left Washington. The organizers this year were determined to avoid those problems. The march was staged for just over $200,000 - about a quarter of the cost of the 2000 event - and Jones and other principals repeatedly gave out a number that they wanted marchers to text, which would automatically sign them up on a mailing list the organizers hope will be useful in all congressional districts...