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...telling detail and the humorous, often incongruous anecdote that illuminated the humanity of the powerful. I loved watching him regale a group with tales of everything from Lyndon Johnson's hydra-headed shower to the old Yale baseball mitt that the first President Bush kept in his desk in the Oval Office. People-important people, ordinary people-liked to tell Hugh things. He was trustworthy and fair-minded, and they could sense that. For all his time in Washington, Hugh never lost touch with his roots in Iowa and kept an abiding curiosity about the whole great middle of this...
...hanging scroll shows him in Manchu military armor, with crossbow and arrows at the ready. Like most of his tribe, he was an expert archer - and, as ruler of a still restive empire, he relished his role as commander in chief. In the other portrait Kangxi sits at his desk in a simple Chinese robe, holding a large brush to practice calligraphy, the most prized Chinese art and one of his favorite pastimes. Though he kept ordinary Chinese segregated from the ruling Manchus, Kangxi spoke their language fluently, studied Confucianism daily, and presented himself as the true Son of Heaven...
Telly has had the toughest time adjusting. Once a model preschooler, he has been acting up in kindergarten. One day he used scissors to carve a hole in his desk; another time he crumpled his homework into a ball and covered it with glue. "I don't know if he's being rebellious toward me because 'You let me be on the roof for five days,'" says Natrena, a single...
These days, as he reads in Currier and takes shifts at the welcome desk, Cooper prefers to keep a low profile. He doesn’t wear his past on his sleeve, and whenever anyone asks him how he’s doing, he answers, with mechanical conviction: “Just happy to be here...
...Dressed in a green suit with two earrings adorning his left ear, Purdy, 52, stood before Judge George Sprague last week. Purdy was arrested at his Arrow Street hair salon on Oct. 7. About Hair is still in operation, and Purdy was seen tending the cashier’s desk after the hearing. Purdy’s lawyer, Fransisco J. Fernandez, said that the masseuses had not been asked back to work. Purdy moved into the space on Arrow Street in 1990 and has since subdivided the property to include an art museum that features his own paintings as well...