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...Police shoved a torchbearer whose flame had already been extinguished when he pretended to light an 11-year-old's birthday cake, causing the girl to burst into tears...
...White House will celebrate its 200th birthday on Nov. 1, and right now the White House Historical Association is searching for someone rotund enough to play the role of President John Adams, the first President to take up residence there. All he has to do is climb into an antique carriage on Pennsylvania Avenue around 1 p.m. that day and make his way to the White House to commemorate the fateful first entry, which at the time was barely noted. The original Adams had some doubts about the place even before he left Philadelphia; the mansion...
...Vidal has left that secluded luxury to begin, just a few days shy of his 75th birthday, another golden period in the limelight, making a publicity tour for "The Golden Age." A revival of "The Best Man," his hit 1960 play about infighting at a national political convention, has just opened on Broadway. And despite Vidal's deeply held atheism, there must be a God, or god, showering his current visibility with reflected glory. A distant cousin (fifth, Vidal thinks) is the Democratic nominee for President. During the party's August convention in Los Angeles, the author told reporters...
Gates and Appiah launched the site on Martin Luther King's birthday in 1999, largely to sell copies of the Africana encyclopedia on CD-ROM and in print...
...direct involvement makes the story less juicy, but the suit did have some dishy details about life in the West Wing kitchen: Once, claims McCulloch, after spurning yet another advance, she was ordered to peel eight crates of kiwi fruit; and another time, instead of making the President's birthday cake, usually a highlight of the year, she was told to clean out the refrigerator...