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Before he left, Fawcett remarked, "If with all my experience we can't make it, there's not much hope for others." About that much he was right. Dozens of search parties followed him in--Peter Fleming, brother of the writer Ian, was among them--and as many as 100 people died in the hunt. One of the unlikeliest Fawcett hunters, and possibly the last, is David Grann, a 40-year-old journalist who, by his own admission, doesn't even like camping. In 2005 he too entered the Brazilian jungle. Fortunately for him, he came out again. He wrote...
...California delegation during the Democratic primary.THE CHARISMATIC CATHOLICWhile he never captured an elected office, Joe Kennedy bequeathed his political hopes to his sons, both of whom attended Harvard. John F. Kennedy ’40 arrived in Cambridge under the shadow of both his father and his brother, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. ’38, who was one of the most popular men on campus. In contrast, JFK was seen by his peers as a lesser version of Joe—classmates called him “attractive, witty, and unpurposeful.” He, like FDR, maintained...
...charge Blagojevich denies). But as he returned home this past weekend to kick off a listening tour of the state he has represented for over a month, Burris suddenly faced tough questions regarding his own possibly conflicting statements about whether he had had contact last fall with Blagojevich's brother about raising money for the governor. And so now, after a whirlwind six weeks that saw the governor defiantly resist calls to resign before finally being ousted, resignation calls are echoing again...
...appearance came after Blagojevich surprised all observers by making the appointment but before the Illinois Secretary of State had agreed to certify the nomination and the U.S. Senate had accepted Burris into its exclusive club. At the time, Burris testified that he had not had contact with Blagojevich's brother, who was the Governor's chief fundraiser and is also reportedly under federal scrutiny for allegedly putting the squeeze on Senate hopefuls (a charge he, too, has denied). After his testimony, Burris said: "I feel I passed the test with flying colors. I have nothing to hide...
...since then, Burris has amended his testimony in a sworn affidavit with the House's impeachment panel chair, outlining multiple conversations he had in fact had with Blagojevich's brother and other of the governor's lieutenants, which included requests for him to raise cash. The Chicago Sun-Times first disclosed the inconsistencies in a weekend report. The paper then suggested Monday that Burris only came clean after being contacted about the matter by federal investigators, something Burris denied Monday as "absolutely, positively not true." (See the Top 10 Scandals...