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Built in Mobile, Ala., the Hunley was the third sub financed by a group of wealthy Louisiana businessmen who had ties to the Confederate secret service. Their first was intentionally scuttled when New Orleans fell to Union forces in 1861. Their second sank in rough seas off Mobile in February 1863. The Hunley, completed in July 1863, was dispatched to Charleston, where it sank twice on earlier trips, killing 13 men, including one of its sponsors, Horace L. Hunley, for whom it was named. It was nicknamed the "Peripatetic Coffin," a fitting name, as it was only 4 ft. wide...
America's China policy is now officially a businesslike one. The House of Representatives ended weeks of sputtering, vote-counting and furious arm-twisting Wednesday evening with a relatively comfortable 237-197 passage of the bill granting permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China. Businessmen and economists rejoiced, Big Labor gnashed its teeth and tore its hair. Bill Clinton (with an assist from the Republicans, the ex-presidents and the economic good times) pulled a NAFTA encore and convinced America that free trade is still a good thing, and maybe convinced historians there'll be something good to write about...
...been an oh-so-Louisiana run for Edwards, whom nobody but the feds ever wanted to kick around. They got him for extorting money from businessmen seeking Louisiana casino licenses, including star witness Edward J. DeBartolo Jr., the former owner of the San Francisco 49ers, who got a reduced sentence for testifying about his own $400,000 bribe to Edwards. He was a bad boy, but the voters never cared; Edwards liked to joke that he'd never have to leave office unless he was "caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." Edwards was a charmer...
...employees to sit through such classes, and anger management is often included in drug treatment and couples counseling. New Hope/Anger Management Inc., based in West Palm Beach, Fla., which has conducted 200 courses in the past seven years, started out treating halfway-house criminals but works today with wealthy businessmen, the homeless and children as young as eight. Even the six-year-old in Flint, Mich., who killed his classmate in February had reportedly been scheduled to undergo anger therapy. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who gunned down 13 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., had taken anger-management...
...superspy," admits one of his young Kremlin aides. "His line was political intelligence" aimed at recruiting Western agents. Putin says his work involved ferreting out information on the U.S.S.R.'s political enemies: pressuring East Germans into collecting information in the West, suborning visiting Western scientists and businessmen...