Word: deathly
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...secretive. All of them. But I think we got a lot more out of President Kennedy and especially President [Lyndon] Johnson. He would summon us - the entire press corps - to the South Lawn and we'd stroll around the grounds with him. We'd call them the Bataan Death Marches because the women wore really high heels with pointed toes, and we would be falling all over each other. But we'd take these walks, and he would really let his hair down. We'd get real insight into how much he was suffering with Vietnam. He'd tell...
...Pozas (the Pools) are an excellent first stop and typify the region's color and extravagance. These extraordinary gardens near the mountain village of Xilitla were devised by the English surrealist poet Edward James, who worked on them from 1949 right up until his death in 1984. Giant sculptures, pagodas, moss-covered follies and staircases to nowhere sprawl over 80 acres (32 hectares). Nearby is James' former home - a truly incongruous mansion of turrets and Gothic windows rising out of the jungle. Today, it is a fabulously quirky eight-room hotel, La Posada El Castillo...
...Also attacked were the offices of the Federal Investigation Agency (Pakistan's equivalent of the FBI), where 21 people had been killed in a March 2008 truck bombing. Four government employees and a bystander were killed there on Thursday in a 90-minute siege that ended with the death of two attackers. (See pictures of the front-line battle against the Taliban...
That's not a death panel. It's simply good medicine...
...Gruttola, who had known Lagakos for 27 years, called his death “just a tragic day for us at Harvard...