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...chance. While he was running the Democratic Convention in New York City in 1992, he insisted the cashier's check for the confetti vendor be held in escrow in case the climactic balloon drop following Bill Clinton's acceptance speech flopped. Ickes' tactic forced the balloon man to climb into the rafters to cut the netting with a large knife. The sight of an armed man climbing through the lights at Madison Square Garden drove Clinton's security detail to distraction. "The Secret Service guys nearly shot the guy out of the rafters," recalled a White House aide, "all because...
...right to a tobacco-free airspace. In the same way, more and more students who drink little or no alcohol have focused on the fact that other people's drunkenness isn't just unpleasant. It often leads to physical and sexual assaults and even death, especially when wasted students climb behind the wheel of a car. Enough is enough, say the campus rebels who want to stay sober...
...dodging Beijing bicycle traffic on her crutches, when she arrived at the office building of a high official attached to the dam. There, an apologetic aide informed her that due to one of the city's increasingly frequent power shortages, the elevator was out -- and she would have to climb six flights of stairs. Leaning on her interpreter, Burton made it up the steep candlelit stairway. "When I arrived, wilted and breathless," she recounts, her interview subject chuckled, gestured to a mural of the dam and said, " 'Now you can see for yourself how badly we will need the energy...
...this adaptation of the Alfred Hitchcock film, an ocean liner is shipwrecked, and the passengers wiggle on their stomachs and climb into the lifeboat. What follows is an unpredictable set of instances testing bravado and intellect. The lucky passengers are a pathetic bunch, each one more unlikable than the next...
...cents for first-class U.S. stamps wasn't expensive (or awkward) enough, the cost of mailing a letter will climb to 32 cents shortly after the New Year rolls around. The independent Postal Rate Commission today approved the 10.3 percent increase -- part of a set of hikes to infuse the cash-strapped post office with an additional $4.7 billion in 1995. But the commission frowned on a Postal Service request to raise all rates by the same percentage: Instead of charging a quarter for each post card or extra ounce of regular mail, as the post office wanted, post cards...