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...however, Garn and Nelson were mere junketeers, politicians who wangled a trip into orbit largely for the sake of going up--or, in the case of the famously space-sick Garn, throwing up. Glenn is no mere joyrider. "John has worked hard to prepare for this," says Senator Wendell Ford of Kentucky. "He's not doing it for the publicity. He is doing it to make a contribution...
Reading A Pirate Looks at Fifty is like sitting with Buffett at a beachside bar, listening to him spin tales, repeat himself now and then, discourse on life and share nifty bits of geography and history. ("In the late '30s, Henry Ford...constructed a picture-perfect replica of a Michigan town to house 10,000 rubber workers" in the Amazonian jungle. "It didn't catch on.") He has a gift for equatorial observation but doesn't like to rough it. He wants his adventures to come with a four-star hotel and perhaps a chilled bottle of Puligny-Montrachet...
...institute is jointly sponsored by the American Repertory Theater and the W.E.B. Dubois Institute. It was launched in November 1997 with a $1.5 million challenge grant from the Ford Foundation...
Gergen continued in various high level roles inthe Ford and Reagan administration and returned tothe White House in 1993 to act as a counselor toPresident Clinton...
...could have helped cause the crash. I was close behind the car, as much as 10 meters, and my driving may have caused it to swerve and lose control." Levistre, a truck driver by profession, said that last Aug. 31 he was speeding in a dark gray Ford Ka through the Paris underpass where the princess's car crashed. His comments came in an interview with investigators working for journalist Nicholas Farrell, who is writing a book on the crash, the paper said. But Farrell said: "In no way can it be suggested that Levistre was responsible totally...