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...last past Super Tuesday, on Feb. 5 - and failed to prepare for any of the states that followed. Two weeks before the Texas primary, Bill Clinton telephoned Waco insurance mogul and philanthropist Bernard Rapoport, a friend and backer since the 1970s. Rapoport told Clinton that this was the first contact he had had from anyone on the campaign. "He was madder than mad," Rapoport says. "He was right. There was so much we could have done, but we never heard from anyone at headquarters...
...Schapiro plans on staying in contact with Margaret long after she graduates from Harvard, to act both as a mentor and a friend...
...fought in the 2006 war. On the walls of his sitting room, "martyr" portraits of his fallen comrades are plastered alongside pictures of Hizballah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini. In another room, a walkie-talkie constantly squawked as Hizballah fighters kept in contact with one another...
...twin-engine plane owned by Venezuelan airline Santa Barbara failed to contact control towers as expected after it took off from Merida en route to Simon Bolivar International Airport outside of Caracas, said Gen. Antonio Rivero, Venezuela's emergency management director...
...Heba Kotb is running late for her daily Cairo clinic. Her patients, men and women, thumb indifferently through society magazines, carefully avoiding any eye contact with one another. The clinic is cheerful and warm, brightly decorated in shades of yellow and blue, and the only clue to the nature of her practice is the title of her book, on display in the waiting room: For Adults Only...