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...counseled him privately to go easy on the travel. On a flight to the tsunami-hit regions of Asia, Bush tried to get Clinton, not long from heart by-pass surgery, to take the lone bed on the Air Force plane. Clinton insisted seniority determine who got the bunk...
...town of Ashkelon on Israel's central plain. These days, Mardawi, a trim 40-year-old with a close-cropped gray beard, says he rejects violence. "We can't crush the Israelis and they can't crush us," he admits, sitting on a rough brown blanket on his metal bunk. "You can't crush an entire people. We need to give peace talks a chance." That means giving Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas enough time to secure the release of prisoners like Mardawi. Palestinian militants agreed to Abbas' request for a halt to attacks, mainly because they believe...
Attention college shoppers. You too, Mom and Dad. The days of using cinder blocks to loft the bed, remnant carpeting to cover the floor and the oldest sheets in the linen closet to adorn the dorm-room bunk have gone the way of the slide rule. This year the university set is expected to have spent $26 billion on back-to-college wares, including clothes, books, stereos and computers. But fully $1 out of every $10 spent--$2.6 billion--went into decorating the dorm. Today's college send-offs, who have watched their parents refinance and remodel their homes...
...channel 16, after several attempts, Radon makes contact with the chatty master of Barge Express VIII, who alters course. "Roger that! Roger that! Roger that!" replies Radon, eager to escape an inquisition. He needs to go below to wake Joe Homer for the next watch; before Radon can bunk down, he must fill out the log and finish the chart. By the time he wakes, Hervey Bay will be back where it was 24 hours ago, off Dalrymple, waiting for a Papuan drug trafficker. It's Sunday morning and Coastwatch planes are in the bright skies over the Strait, Fitzy...
Captain Reagan, kept out of action because of poor vision, never saw hostile fire. Indeed, since he was assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit (jocularly given the acronym FUMPOO) at the old Hal Roach studios making propaganda films for the armed forces, he could usually bunk at home. They also serve who narrate documentaries...