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...Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala will hike unspecified mountains out West with former Federal Reserve vice chairman Alice Rivlin; Secretary of Commerce William Daley will go salmon fishing in Alaska with Senate Appropriations chairman Ted Stevens; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg taught a law class held at Crete's Sirens Beach Resort Hotel; Senator John McCain will settle in on a houseboat in Lake Powell, Ariz.; Speaker Dennis Hastert will attend the reopening of the Reichstag; Al Gore went canoeing on the Connecticut River...
...just came back from Crete three weeks ago," Donoghue says. "This summer, we're going to Tibet. Last summer, we went to Sichuan.... As a graduate student, for my dissertation I collected in Mexico and Central America. That's what I'd like to do more of in the summer, go on expeditions to collect plants...
Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who was born in Crete, has been asked by the Athens mayor and Greece's minister of foreign affairs to accept the position of organizer for the 2004 Olympics. Thus far, she has said that she wants to continue participating in the Olympic process but has not given a definite indication of whether she will take...
Axel quickly falls for a wealthy widow named Elaine (Faye Dunaway). Like Daedalus escaping from Crete, Axel builds endless air machines at her insistence. The numerous crash scenes range from dumb to dumber. Though there's hardly a wrinkle on Dunaway's face and her figure is curvaceous, her Elaine clutches beauty like an iron mask, with quickly spoken words and twitchy mannerisms...
When the trial began in Athens in 1991, Awad was flown to Greece on a military plane and housed on a U.S. military base in Crete. Despite the dangers implied by such heavy security, Awad did not flinch. His detailed testimony about Rashid helped put the terrorist away for 18 years. For his pains, Awad was told his reward would be delayed until after he testified again during Rashid's appeal. Even after that, the check was withheld for another eight months while government departments bickered over the amount. State officials backed the FBI's recommendation for a $1 million...