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...managing editor called my phone and left a cruel message, heard first by my roommate, compounding my humiliation. I had a math test that day. Failed it. It was also my birthday...
...Borlaug’s 90th birthday party earlier this year, Colin Powell led the singing of “Happy Birthday” in his honor. But, according to Quinn, when Peter Jennings came to interview Borlaug, he had already left for Africa...
Bush is rushing madly into his 80th birthday June 12, when there will be a Houston celebration ("41@80") involving thousands--including a certain U.S. President and a couple dozen sports, TV and movie stars blowing candles and kisses. The next day: Bush's fourth parachute jump (counting his WW II bailout), at Texas A&M in College Station...
...across the lagoon on the champagne corks"--and the tropical fecundity of Ceylon with equally irresistible power. Who could stop reading a chapter that begins, "Her father, a bony, vivid man with a taste for women and morphine, had drowned in the rip off Trincomalee on Maud's sixteenth birthday...
...after all. It was raining sideways the day before, Eisenhower recalled, as the commanders listened to weather reports. Assured that the Allies would have to pass up this optimal alignment of tides and moon because of the impenetrable storm, Rommel got to slip home to celebrate his wife's birthday. Wars are won and lost over decisions big and small. "How stupid of me," Rommel said when he heard the news. "How stupid...