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Foreign correspondents can be a pretty jaded lot, full of a world-weariness that's partly feigned but partly real. But nobody was feeling--or even pretending to be--blasé aboard the chartered Asiana Airlines 747 from Beijing as it bore down on Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, on Feb. 25 carrying the New York Philharmonic orchestra and 80 mostly U.S. journalists. For many of us, North Korea has long been as remote as the dark side of the moon, so we were more than eager to get a look at it. Television cameramen jostled for position in window...
...throne and a helicopter pilot. The decks of the Invincible and the Hermes were jammed with munitions and the latest in British aerial fighting gear: vertical-takeoff Harrier attack aircraft and Sea King helicopters. Some 2,000 Royal Marines, the nucleus of an assault group, were also aboard the ships. Once out on the Atlantic, the carriers were joined by destroyers, frigates and support vessels until the fleet numbered close to 30. Running at night under blackout conditions, the largest British military armada since World War II began its long, slow voyage toward the South Atlantic. Far ahead of surface...
...aboard the Tay Train. That might well become the motto of the Harvard women’s basketball team, which saw its repeat Ivy Title bid hang precipitously in the balance in an unlikely nail-biter with woeful Penn (3-15, 0-3 Ivy) on Friday night. Then junior guard Emily Tay, who shredded the Quakers’ defense all night, found one last, all-important hole and buried a jumper with 14 ticks left to seal the Crimson’s furious 63-62 comeback win over visiting Penn. Tay’s last-minute heroics—made...
...futures speculation. Many cited Bouton's storied record of fiercely defending Société Générale's independence in the past. But even before that day had ended, the general surprise that greeted Bouton's survival gave way to anticipation that he'd been kept aboard as the best-placed expert to chose the best among several anticipated suitors for the tarnished and shaken institution...
...night before the South Carolina primary, the only optimist aboard John McCain's Straight Talk Express was state chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham. "I feel as good about this election," said Graham, "as I've ever felt about any election before." McCain - who was famously burned in South Carolina in 2000 after his New Hampshire victory, when a whisper campaign and George Bush's dominance of the state's Republican party structure combined to deliver a crushing blow - was openly nervous. He even asked his staff to switch his exit song at rallies from confident, macho stuff like the Rocky theme...