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When Howard graduated from Columbia, we hired him full-time as a reporter, and his gift for the stylish phrase won him the chance to write foreign news. Howard happened to be the Saturday night duty writer when the Chinese army stormed Tiananmen Square in 1989, and by daybreak Sunday he wrote our cover on the massacre. Since then, he has written or edited more than 50 covers, giving rise to the rumor that he never leaves the building. Trust me: he does, though his elaborately decorated office (which includes not one but two plastic blowups of the figure from...
...vice presidential running mate, Joe Lieberman, and his wife, Hadassah, flew overnight from Los Angeles following the Democratic National Convention to begin our journey. Despite only a few hours of sleep on the plane, the cheers of the delegates filled our hearts overnight and buoyed us with energy. Daybreak in La Crosse, Wisconsin, the embarkation point for our cruise, also proved inspiring as thousands of campaign supporters lined the shore...
...Daybreak Saturday brought more large crowds to the banks of the Mississippi - and this time many wished Tipper a happy birthday. We traveled the river together, greeting residents as we rode - some in person as we passed through locks and dams along the way, others from afar with a wave or a yell towards shore. A group of high school students camping on the shore of the river stoked their campfire and yelled in support as we drifted past. Local residents hung banners from bridge spans and boat launches situated along our route...
...Around daybreak yesterday the storm reached Boston, with snow falling steadily for several hours before mixing with sleet, freezing rain and then rain as the day progressed...
...millennium. But when he got to the tempestuous isles, he was told, "We get to see the sun rise maybe four times a year." Nervously, Liss waited and was rewarded, along with the islanders, with a brief but stunning dawn, the first sunrise of the new century. A single daybreak, the beginning of another accumulation of days to make a year, a century, a millennium. After all the extravagant and theatrical celebrations of immense measures of time, all of us must now return to live the future...