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...before the convention opened. A menagerie of Jackson hangers-on and media executives produced a constant din of demands on his time. Through it all, Brown moved at his amiable pace, never snapping. He shows the same style as he travels in pursuit of the chairmanship amid the crisp flutter of his professional staffers. Only small signs show that the calm is partly a facade: eyes that keep darting and miss nothing, a leg that shakes back and forth like a place-kicker's as he sits and talks...
When the seats shudder and the wings flutter and the engines crescendo in what sounds like a last and mighty effort to lift off, what traveler has not wondered nervously whether the plane should be retired? America's aging fleet of passenger jets became a national concern last April when a 19-year-old Aloha Airlines 737 ripped apart in midair. Since then, cracks have been found in the fuselage of some of the other 429 Boeing 737-100s and 737-200s still flying in the U.S., giving rise to fears that regular inspections are not enough...
...first love. Everyone can recall the earliest flutter of the heart, even (or especially?) French Presidents. "I disappeared each day between the noon and evening meals . . . waiting long hours ((for her)) hidden behind a sand dune," writes Francois Mitterrand about the first time he was smitten, at 15. Mitterrand's poignant reminiscence of pursuing -- and failing to catch -- an unnamed girl during a family vacation in Belgium appears in Their Very First Time, which goes on sale in France this week. The volume includes the romantic flashbacks of 95 other notables, including generals, civil servants and a race-car driver...
South Korea is ready for the big party. Seoul is bedecked with flags and banners that flutter their welcome in a gentle summer breeze. Children are rehearsing spirited songs. The bands have been tuning up for months. Soon the guests from 161 countries will be arriving: 250,000 tourists, 14,000 journalists and, most important, 13,000 athletes and sports officials. A global television audience of more than 1 billion people will tune in as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad get under...
...real one, who views an Oxford education as "sending his only son into the everlasting hellfire." Oscar's financial salvation comes when a well-to-do classmate looking for company knocks on his door by accident and then remarks, "I say, Odd Bod, do you like a flutter?" Slowly, Oscar realizes that he is being invited to bet on horses at Epsom Downs. He would indeed like a flutter: "He knew that God would give him money at the races...