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...opposition, this presents a great opportunity. Opposition leaders flew down from Moscow to have their turn at the podium during the late-January protest. Alongside local activists, they called not only for lower taxes, more jobs and a new governor but for an end to Putin's reign. Nemtsov was the most prominent figure to speak. A popular governor of Nizhny Novgorod in the 1990s and a Deputy Prime Minister under President Boris Yeltsin, he took the stage in a bomber jacket and jeans. "Moscow is sucking the money from the regions as if they were its colonies," he said...
...shattered communities. On Monday night, for example, a brigade of troops was delayed three hours so that President Michelle Bachelet could arrive to see them off. The troops themselves were rather green, according to Peter Murphy Lewis, an American professor of political science at the University of Chile, who flew to the badly hit city of Concepción in a Chilean air force Boeing 707 with 340 of the troops. "Many of the soldiers," he says, "were saying stuff like, 'Wow, we are so high! We are in the clouds!' They had never flown on a plane before...
...ocean. And if it were an amphibious bus, I might do that. When I was flying, I never saw the U.S. and what it really looked like. I saw the back of the concert hall, the hotel and the airport. Now I really see America. The last time I flew was in '82. I had such a bad flight. A two-engine plane. The flight was dipsy-doodling up and down all the way home. I said, "Oh, my God, when I get to Detroit, that's it. That is it." And I have not flown since. But I intend...
When I asked Lee if he would make my dress for the premiere of the Sex and the City movie, he was gracious enough to say yes. He flew to New York City on a couple of occasions to keep fitting it on me. In London, he fitted it on me again, with the same exacting precision he had about everything. Big and little. And he was just lovely. When he'd look up and smile--which he rarely did, since he was very shy--he was just so winning...
...just the sort of fellow you would have wanted to invent it: playful in mind and in spirit to the very end. He once referred to himself indirectly as "Admiral Asteroid, Conqueror of the Cosmic All." Early on, he convinced county fairgoers that his discs flew on an invisible wire: 100 feet for $1; the disc was free! I bought one of his legendary Pluto Platters--the archetype for all modern plastic flying discs--as a 10-year-old in the spring...