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...Apparently these days it's a book about a battle with a chronic illness. Rumors swirled last week that bidding for MICHAEL J. FOX's memoir about his 10-year struggle with Parkinson's ended north of the $4 million mark. It will join bookshop shelves already bulging with brave tales of celebrity indisposition, including Lance Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike, detailing his struggle with testicular cancer, and in September, Fall Down, Laughing: How Squiggy Caught MS and Didn't Tell Nobody, by David Lander of Laverne & Shirley. But you don't have to be ailing...
...will make their own laws and form a country unto themselves. In Britain's North Sea, an old gunnery fort called the Principality of Sealand is attracting investors who hope to make it a digital utopia, storing people's electronic secrets free from any government interference. How do these brave new seaworlds stack...
...softball. Last week government and "the fascinating life and times of America's 37th President" were the chief subjects of a five-day summer camp at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, Calif. Activities included a '60s class, where campers learned about tie-dye and "brave American POWs," and a tour of the Barbie as First Lady exhibit. But camp isn't the only way Nixonites are reaching out to G.O.P. guppies. The library's store sells pens, one showing Elvis visiting Nixon and another showing Air Force One buzzing the White House. For SoCal's budding...
...That brave man would be truly deserving of consideration, standing tall with his own vice president at his side. But somehow, it just doesn't sound like the Al Gore we know...
...Young man," he said in a tone reminiscent of something in an Arnold Schwartzenegger movie, "I will make you a deal" (You know, when the stereotypical evil Arab agrees to let the brave American Arnold go if he works for him and not the CIA). Intrigued, I listened. "I will get you to the airport, and you pay me $30," he said. "Flat rate, no questions." Needlessly melodramatic, I thought, but I said yes to the very good rate. It occurred to me that there were other connections than Harvard ones...