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...somber and brief. It made no news, announced no action; it sought simply to reassure and encourage. It began for viewers with 10 seconds of a silent Bush who had not been told the cameras were rolling. But it put the president of the United States back at his desk at the Oval Office after a day on the move. The string of catastrophes that led from the nation?s financial heart in New York to its military one at the Pentagon led a wary Bush from an education event in Florida to military bases in Louisiana and Nebraska before...
...printed up some handmade signs that said GIVE BLOOD NOW, photocopied them at a copy shop and headed for St. Vincent's. As she started walking and handing out flyers, 100 people started walking with her. When they reached the hospital, the gurneys were everywhere, and rolling desk chairs covered with white sheets had been brought out to the pavement to handle bodies. The chairs already looked like ghosts...
...presidents desk, Rudenstine left Summers three colored juggling balls—because “I’m going to be juggling many balls at once in this job,” Summers quipped—and the traditional letter welcoming him to his new post...
...went to Leiberman's apartment in San Francisco, where, after I paid him $725, he sat me down in a tiny school desk in a room with an ON AIR sign and a wall full of 8-by-10 glossies of all his students, two of whom were posing with puppets. Leiberman has a salt-and-pepper ponytail and a vanity license plate that reads BE FUNNYR, and counts Heidi Fleiss among his clients. It used to be so much easier to meet Heidi Fleiss...
Before I arrived in Singapore, I talked with someone who had recently returned from a business trip there. When he got his telephone bill from his hotel, he noticed a call on it that he was fairly sure he hadn’t placed. So, he called the front desk and they connected him with the phone company. The phone company informed him that he had, in fact, placed the phone call and then played their recording of the call to prove...