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...discouraged as the rest of the world in 1952, saw in their new young Queen a reminder of a great past when they had carved out empires under Elizabeth I and Victoria, and dared to hope that she might be an omen of a great future. Her dramatic flight from a vacation in Kenya at George VI's death to take her place at the head of the royal family beside the Queen Mother and revered Queen Mary gave the British spirit a lift even in the midst of their bereavement...
April 3, 2006.The worst day of the year.Not because I was stuck on a crowded flight back to school. Not even because I landed on a rain-soaked, dreary runway at Logan Airport just hours after leaving 80-degree weather.No, the first Monday in April is the worst day of the year, every year. It’s NCAA Championship Monday, when all interest I have in sporting events gets packed away with the pre-made championship T-shirts of the unfortunate loser.As an almost lifelong resident of Oklahoma, I’ve never been attached to professional sports. Franchises...
...last flight on the plane, guys - very sad." It was Andrew H. Card Jr., the outgoing White House Chief of Staff, popping his head into the press cabin at the back of Air Force One on Tuesday night, toward the end of the flight back to Andrews Air Force Base after a long day of Medicare and political events in Missouri and Iowa. He startled the journalists, some of whom were dozing or watching the movie Fun with Dick and Jane...
...front, President Bush, the traveling staff, some Secret Service agents and a few crew members had gathered in the conference room for cake and slides to mark Card's final flight as "The Chief." Joshua B. Bolten, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, officially takes over Saturday...
...Card party cut into a huge coconut cake and watched a slide show that White House photographer Eric Draper had assembled to commemorate Card's five-plus years in the West Wing, the second longest any Chief of Staff has served. The meal for the two-hour flight from Des Moines was chicken Marsala and tomato cucumber salad. The Air Force One crew presented Card with a jacket and a window from the plane inscribed with his name as an expression of gratitude. Card, a frequent guest at Camp David and a member of the "Hundred Degree Club...