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...Francisco, but Dick Gephardt blew his cover when reporters caught him sneaking into Kerry's hideaway office in the Capitol. Kerry insisted on seeing the candidates alone, or sometimes with his wife. About once every 10 days or so, Johnson would deliver to Kerry a fat accordion file of background memos, speeches the various candidates had made and videos of their performances. Kerry would send them back, asking for more information, though those closest to the process were struck that he seemed to need less on Edwards, Gephardt, Bob Graham and Wesley Clark. "He knew more about the people...
Granted, my uncanny coincidences could be a product of where I live. There are 8 million people in this city, but a lot of factors—like neighborhood, educational background and socioeconomic class—narrow down the range of people with whom I interact with on a regular basis...
...navigate high school, “Closing Time” and a follow-up single or two made Slichter’s band positively ubiquitous, in a faceless kind of way. You’d never recognize them on the street, but it was their tune whistling in the background of countless malls and dances. Just as quickly, of course, the fickle charts dropped Semisonic, and critical acclaim could do little to keep the trio in the spotlight...
...Saturn General information about the planet being probed and photographed by the Cassini-Huygens. With statistics, animation, and view of the planet as well as historical background about Saturn's rings...
...that Jefferson had authored the Declaration of Independence, which had yet to become holy writ for Americans. Instead, the Virginian was eclipsed by the 35-year-old wunderkind from the Caribbean, who was a lowly artillery captain in New York when Jefferson composed the famous document. Despite his murky background as an illegitimate orphan, the self-invented Hamilton was trim and elegant, carried himself with an erect military bearing and had a mind that worked with dazzling speed. At first, Hamilton and Jefferson socialized on easy terms, with little inkling that they were destined to become mortal foes. But their...