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...precision dress of a Frankfurt banker, his new media friends discovered Middelhoff to be a man of surprising charm and easy humor. That down-homeness may reflect his roots. He lives on a farm outside Gutersloh with his wife, five children, 45 cows and sheep, and a duck pond. "Thomas can defuse the tension in any room," says Aydin Caginalp, Bertelsmann's U.S. attorney for 18 years...
...first clue is the "200C" on the label. What this means is that whatever active ingredient Oscillococcinum began with--in this case, duck heart and liver (no quack jokes, please)--has been diluted beyond all imagining. First, one part of the active ingredient is combined with a hundred parts of solvent. Next, the mixture is shaken and diluted again at one part per hundred--a process that is repeated a total of 200 times. Finally, sugar granules soaked in the resulting solution are enclosed in six capsules a box, good for two days of treatment...
...Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, the presidential and vice-presidential nominees of what was then called the Republican party (which later became the Democratic party), ended up in an electoral college tie, with 73 votes each. The choice devolved on the lame-duck House of Representatives, with each state's delegation voting as a unit...
...love affair with presidential campaigns began back in 1980, when I covered Ted Kennedy and then Ronald Reagan as a lucky cub reporter for this magazine. Ever since, like a duck hunter or baseball fan drawn to opening day, I have managed to make it to New Hampshire for the start of the season...
...Bruce has had no desire to give up on life. He has always been buoyed by the presence of supportive friends and family. When he felt well enough, he'd go duck hunting and fishing but never far from home in Downers Grove, Ill. Though he rarely travels more than a few miles from there, Bruce has amassed a baseball-cap collection featuring the insignias of 35 states. "I'll have every state west of the Mississippi after I get Kansas, Nebraska and Oregon. And I have friends going to those places to get them...