Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today pushed off a planned vote on legislation to reform rules for off-shore oil drilling, because the bill lacked the votes to overcome Republican opposition.

He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.

Immediately after this, Sir Hugh Rose received an express, reporting that a large body of rebels, reinforced by such of the garrison as had escaped from Rathghur, had concentrated at Barodia, a strong village on the left bank of the river Beena, with a gurry, or small fort, surrounded by dense jungle, situated about twenty-two miles from Rathghur.

When the professor turned out to be too warped even for my tastes — consensual knifeplay is one thing; drunken gunplay quite another […]