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...Pillars of Hercules (Putnam; 509 pages; $27.50), Theroux records a grand tour of the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar to Tangier the long way around--that is to say, via the Spanish coast, Corsica, Albania and several points east, aboard wheezing buses, cranky trains and (once) a luxury cruise ship larded with rich Americans. Fans of previous Theroux travelogs like The Happy Isles of Oceania will relish some familiar ingredients. There is, for starters, his dazzling prose, which in a flick of a paragraph can shift from lowly growls of disgust to images of seascape with the allusive force of poetry...
Carver had climbed aboard the Caterpillar to bulldoze open a weather-damaged road across a national forest. The hitch was, he wanted to do so without federal permission. Although plainly illegal, in Carver's mind it was an act of civil disobedience--a frontier Boston Tea Party--warranted by the tyranny he and his fellow citizens in Nye had long endured. But in this case, the purported tyrant was the U.S. government...
Brokaw, Couric and Today executive producer Jeffrey Zucker planned strategy for the interview aboard a chartered plane to Los Angeles on Tuesday morning. They were helped by hundreds of proposed questions supplied by NBC staff members, reporters and legal analysts. (Members of the prosecution team declined to give any help.) The journalists were keenly aware that the interview would be placed under almost impossible scrutiny. "It was going to be really hard to strike the right balance," says Couric. "To be challenging and do follow-ups, but not be too prosecutorial." One strategic decision made early on: the interviewee would...
Amtrak's Sunset Limited was en route from Miami to Los Angeles with 268 people aboard when it derailed in the middle of the night on a remote stretch of track in Arizona. The casualties: one crew member dead, a hundred people injured. Evidence quickly led investigators to pronounce the crash no accident: two rails were found to have been deliberately uncoupled; and a message was found at the crash site from the so-called Sons of the Gestapo--a previously unknown group--that assailed the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, as well as the agencies...
...York State two top executives of Tec-Air Services pleaded guilty to charges of having failed to properly test and maintain emergency equipment aboard various commercial and government aircraft--including Air Force One and Air Force Two, used to ferry the President, Vice President and other top officials about...