By Mary Hickey: Where to read this book: At the beach. Between rounds in an on-line tournament. At Starbucks with your venti and Danish. In bed by yourself. Where not to read it: At the library, because your occasional outbursts of loud laughter will cause its grim guardians to toss you unceremoniously into the outer darkness.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
Reuters - Hurricane Ike barreled toward Cuba as an
extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on Sunday and was forecast
to sweep into the central Gulf of Mexico as a large and
powerful storm echoing Hurricane Gustav.
