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...walk along the sidewalk to find him. A minute later I heard a whistle to my left and turned. A car door opened and smoke poured out. He strained to step out and I happened to look across the fence that surrounds the tarmac. The campaign’s charter plane seemed very close in the dark. Reggie pointed out that a good part of the forward fuselage above the windows was covered in brown paper...
...first glance, Hamilton might seem the more formidable figure in that classic matchup. He took office with an ardent faith in the new national government. He had attended the Constitutional Convention, penned the bulk of the Federalist papers to secure passage of the new charter and spearheaded ratification efforts in New York State. He therefore set to work at Treasury with more unrestrained gusto than Jefferson--who had monitored the Constitutional Convention from his post in Paris--did at State. Jefferson's enthusiasm for the new political order was tepid at best, and when Washington crafted the first government...
...heroes of Robert Kurson's Shadow Divers (Random House; 375 pages) go to very great lengths, and even greater depths, to do precisely that. Their story began in 1991 when Bill Nagle, captain of a charter boat catering to scuba divers, got wind of an unexplored shipwreck 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. He quickly rounded up a dirty dozen of recreational divers, including a Vietnam veteran named John Chatterton, and sailed out for a look-see. A quick underwater peek revealed that the wreck was, unbelievably, a World War II--vintage German U-boat, nestled...
...Stop Loving You? - the kind of success that can propel an artist (or at least allow him to cruise) toward a career as a non-hit-producing musical treasure. For the next four decades, he toured, guested on TV shows, earned honors galore, including a Presidential Medal and a charter membership in the Rock ?n Roll Hall of Fame. It was coasting, sure, an oldies act, but Charles always gave the crowd an electrifying evening...
...licenses for gays, so there was nothing to make public. Sowle denies she was deliberately stalling to help politicians get past the filing deadline. "I was working 12-, 14-hour days. I was working weekends," she says, "on a lot of things," including a review of the county charter. Sowle also wanted a second opinion, which was still being drafted...