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...wholesale the social use of many once-forbidden and shadowy substances. If that had been the focus of Woodward's book--as apologists for Belushi who have read only shallowly claim--not only would Wired have amounted to a virtual rabbit-punch, but it would have been boring to boot...
...there has never been a thorough investigation of the battlefield is that until last August it was covered by two-foot-tall stands of buffalo grass. A careless smoker changed that, starting a fire that denuded the site. Since digging began two weeks ago, 550 artifacts, from an Army boot to several limb bones, have been unearthed...
...whatever else you might say about Providence, it doesn't let felons hold office. The city council indicated just minutes after Cianci's sentencing that it would seek to boot him. Cianci announced a few minutes later that he would resign. Once he did, every festering sore in Providence City Hall opened...
...brash and big-beaked, he was the "American eagle" to an admiring Winston Churchill. Though he took part in three wars, Mark Wayne Clark won his greatest renown as the World War II soldier who led the first army in history to fight all the way up the Italian boot from toe to top. In 1943, at 46, he was the nation's youngest three-star general when he was picked by Dwight Eisenhower to organize the U.S. Fifth Army in Africa. At his death last week of cancer in Charleston, S.C., General Clark, 87, was the last...
...time in stuffy rooms and cramped airplane seats. The adrenaline gushes all day long. Every remark, every intellectual twitch or tic is scrutinized, recorded, analyzed. In the frenzy of political combat, the candidate must improvise crucial strategic moves, keep his facts straight and try to look presidential to boot. Senator John Glenn said he was "perpetually tired" two months before the first primary. Fellow Dropout George McGovern seemed well rested, even twinkly, while he was in the race. Still, he says, "Fatigue is public enemy No. 1. It has become a most serious problem in American politics...