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...quixotic crusade as Governor of Texas to reform the state's tax code: in the end he feels he lost a battle and won a war, that voters credited him with attempting an impossible but worthy task. "I had earned political capital by spending it," Bush observed in his account of the showdown. He is less likely to cite the searing lesson of watching his father break a promise not to raise taxes and be fired for it. That example is tricky, of course, given that many economists agreed that G.H.W. Bush had done the right thing in reversing course...
...before being freed, he agreed to give five radio talks for his fans in the U.S., which had not yet entered the war (an event the Germans hoped his reassuring words could forestall). Not realizing how desperate Britain's plight had become since his capture, he produced a breezy account of camp life. "There is a good deal to be said for internment," he observed in the first broadcast. "It keeps you out of the saloons and gives you time to catch up with your reading." He spent the rest of his life regretting that lapse. Even before...
...medal for leadership during the whole battle, and Elliott describes the entire episode in the citation he wrote. Elliott later told the Boston Globe he had made a terrible mistake in signing the affidavit. Then he signed a new affidavit standing behind the first. When newspapers questioned Kerry's account in 1996, Elliott went to Boston to uphold it. The commander of one of the other two boats, Chicago Tribune editor William Rood, corroborated Kerry's story last week...
...turning her thoughts to retirement. "You can't go on forever," she said after swimming a spectacular butterfly leg as part of the winning 100-m medley relay team. As for Henry, known for her slow starts and, now, for breaking world records, she's just opened her fame account. She's already being mentioned in the same breath as legends Dawn Fraser and Shane Gould. A marketer's dream, Henry appears set to become Australia's new, ever smiling, Queen of Swimming. Trying to play down the attention and any dramatic changes her success may bring, the modest Brisbaneite...
Last week reporter Phillip Robertson was one of the first Western journalists to make it into Najaf during heavy fighting between the insurgent forces of Moqtada Sadr and the U.S. Here is the account of his trip...