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...correspondent for TIME; a suicide, after suffering from breast cancer and Parkinson's; in Captiva, Fla. A graduate of Stanford, Fadiman moved to China in 1941 without a journalism job but determined to report on the war raging there. The wife of the late writer and critic Clifton Fadiman, she co-wrote with Theodore H. White the 1946 best seller Thunder Out of China...
While children should be reassured, middle schools and high schools must deal with the realities of the war on terrorism in their curriculums. At Centreville High School in Clifton, Va., science classes are looking at such issues as, Is it possible to poison a reservoir? What does anthrax do to the human body? At Suzanne Middle School in Walnut, Calif., Alan Haskvitz interrupted his seventh-grade lesson on the Boston Tea Party to discuss the difference between civil disobedience and terrorism. "We pulled out maps," he says. "We talked about how Arabs are not necessarily Muslims and vice versa...
West also paid tribute last night to his older brother, Clifton, who was present in the audience. Citing his willingness to “take a bullet in the heart and the brain” for his brother, West introduced Clifton as an expert with an inside take on the hip hop industry, as he runs his own production and recording company...
...well-deserved cruise with family and friends and a couple of bowls of fish chowder, his favorite dish. A military duty officer rushed down to the beach with the first flash. He walked into the surf in full uniform to deliver the grim news to Brig. Gen. Chester Clifton, the Presidents military aide who signaled the Marlin back to port. He handed the dispatch to Kennedy who read it in silence. "You go ahead," Kennedy told the family as he got into a golf cart with Clifton to ride back to his house...
...Kennedy remained silent for several minutes. Then he blurted, "Why in hell didn't we know about it?" Clifton responded that out of more than 40 contingency plans he had read for Berlin he could not recall a single one that dealt with the possible construction of a barrier...