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Such a genial host has the quiet effect of curbing pointed questions. Who wants to bring up politics, religion or money at a family dinner or when there are Dove Bars on demand? One day in Pittsburgh, after Bush and his press pack filled the plane with talk of jogging routes, pickup trucks and heifers, it was the reporters on the ground who pressed Bush to clarify his mushy position on abortion and whether he could prove, given the absence of official documents, that he had actually put in all his time in the National Guard. The charm vanished...
...took a friend out sailing off Hyannis on one of the family boats. The friend did not know how to sail. The wind died. Lunchtime approached. Old Joe Kennedy was a tyrant about punctuality. Bobby, who was worrying that they could not make it ashore in time, simply dove overboard and swam for home. His friend drifted and flapped about helplessly until rescued by a passing boat. Good thing it was a nice day. Bobby never apologized. He was not a boy at the time, but 22 years old, headed for law school...
...Such a genial host has the quiet effect of curbing pointed questions. Who wants to bring up politics, religion or money at a family dinner or when there are Dove Bars on demand? One day in Pittsburgh, after Bush and his press pack filled the plane with talk of jogging routes, pickup trucks and heifers, it was the reporters on the ground who pressed Bush to clarify his mushy position on abortion and whether he could prove, given the absence of official documents, that he had actually put in all his time in the National Guard. The charm vanished...
...those arguments speak to the dove in Clinton, the report also warns that despite North Korea's suspension of its missile program and efforts at diplomatic rapprochement, it remains capable of deploying a missile that could threaten the U.S. a lot sooner than 2015, which is when the spy agencies agree the U.S. potentially becomes vulnerable to missile threats from states such as Iran and Iraq. And in a second, unclassified report released to Congress Wednesday, the CIA reports that Russian firms are helping Iran develop its missile capability, while China continues to provide such assistance to Pakistan. In other...
...British and French industry officials, who built the Concorde together in the '60s as a kind of supersonic dove, decide that feeling is gone forever with Tuesday's catastrophe, then it's not hard to imagine that they will seriously consider retiring this distinctive, one-of-a-kind aircraft...