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Fifteen minutes in a grocery store tells the tale.
The killer mischievously tells Hobbes a riddle ("Why is there a space between Lyons and Spakowski?"
Parks tells Shaw that he told Felicity Barringer of the New York Times , who broke the story of the Staples deal in the national press, that it was "an inappropriate arrangement, and we should not have done it," but Barringer, who is a scrupulously fair reporter, tells Shaw he never told her anything like that.
The LAT front tells a disturbing tale about the current state of security of the Russian nuclear arsenal.
As for McCain, who I admit to liking enormously, Howie Kurtz this morning tells me why.