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...dark cloud shadowing America, could show, in private, an unexpected sweetness and charm. Always, front and center (first desk, middle aisle, the Democratic leader's spot) stood Lyndon Johnson, almost handsome then, in his 40s, leaner than history remembers him, narrow-eyed, his hair sleek with Stacomb, alert in a vaguely dangerous way--an impresario, a genius of nuances, a wolf in his prime...
...heads," says a U.S. official, "he probably would." When the interrogators' report reached Washington last Wednesday, it triggered a series of White House meetings and secure teleconferences among top Bush Administration officials. There was plenty of skepticism. And no one wanted to upset the banking sector with an unnecessary alert. (A warning issued the previous Monday was traced to a hoax perpetrated by a Dutch teenager...
...Rights Alert reports that "a collection of photographs that show dozens of celebrities all wearing the same cardigan sweater - and expressing their very different personalities by the way they inhabit the garment - was a novelty buy by Tom Dunne for his St. Martin's Press imprint. It's the work of photographer Stephen Mosher, who spent six years collecting the hundreds of celebrity pictures from which those in the book will be chosen, including Alec Baldwin, Dame Maggie Smith, Glenn Close, Dominick Dunne, Tim Allen, Whoopi Goldberg, Julie Harris, Kathleen Turner, Angela Bassett, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick and many...
...compromise was struck. The FBI would issue an alert carefully hedged with disclaimers about the sources' credibility and lack of specific targets and timing. The color of the alert level would stay where it was, at "yellow." Despite these precautions, the warning, issued about 1:30 p.m. Friday, cast a pall over the stock market during afternoon trading and provoked more complaints about vague, useless security warnings...
...mail in broken English that read: "We are to kill all the foreigners we see, marking the birthday of Hitler [April 20]. Send your citizens back - or else. Russia is for Russians." It was signed: "Ivan, President, Skinhead Group of Russia." The embassy took the threat seriously enough to alert all Americans in Russia to the increased risk over the next several weeks...