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...subsidize the paper covertly, he hired Freneau as a State Department translator. Hamilton was shocked by such flagrant disloyalty from a member of Washington's Cabinet, especially when Freneau began to mount withering assaults on Hamilton and even Washington. Never one to suffer in silence, Hamilton retaliated in a blizzard of newspaper articles published under Roman pseudonyms. The backbiting between Hamilton and Jefferson grew so acrimonious that Washington had to exhort both men to desist...
Last December, I was trying to keep my friend awake at the wheel while we drove home through a blizzard after a hockey road trip. Rewind a bit, and the previous summer I was getting hit on by skeezy sportswriters at the Buffalo Bills’ training camp. Go even further back in time, and I was sitting quite comfortably in the stands at the Murr Center watching our squash teams amid players’ family and friends...
...thrown Earth's delicate climate grotesquely out of whack. Sinuously swaying tornadoes chew through the HOLLYWOOD sign in California. Killer hail bops Japanese commuters on the head. New York City is spectacularly swamped by a tidal wave and then snap-frozen at --150F by a killer blizzard. (That must mean it's officially O.K. to destroy New York City in movies again.) Somewhere in there Dennis Quaid, as an implausibly hunky paleoclimatologist, has to rescue Gyllenhaal, his academic decathlete son, from certain death. By the time it's all over, Earth's blue-green ball is grizzled with...
...like that of Captain Laurence Oates who, crippled by frostbite and concerned he was weighing down Robert Falcon Scott’s Antarctic expedition, told his comrades “I am just going outside and may be some time” before striding off into a blizzard and death—are not ones you’d want to emulate...
...this day in February, a driving blizzard has made Karzai's lair seem even more forbidding. Only one person gets through unchallenged: Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. Inside Karzai's office, the two men converse in English and Dari, one of Afghanistan's two official languages. Karzai, who out of fear of assassination rarely leaves the palace, asks Khalilzad how things look in the country he governs but almost never sees. Khalilzad unfurls a large map and points out various reconstruction projects marked in red and green ink--a network of roads and schools and irrigation canals that...