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Newsweek magazine contributing editor Eleanor Clift has been covering Washington politics for decades.

Her new book features reporting with a touching memoir about the last few weeks in the life of her husband, Tom Brazitas, a political reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Brazitas passed away from kidney cancer in March of 2005, at the same time that Terri Schiavo was living her last few days in a Pinellas Park hospice.

Clift combines the two stories in her new book, *Two W...