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...went with him, took a kayak for a trial ride and bought it immediately. I can't adequately describe the pleasure of paddling on lakes, rivers and bays. I have since bought a second kayak and a trailer for travel. By the way, the first kayak was my gift to myself for my 70th birthday. It's an age-irrelevant sport. Yvonne Herron, Chelsea, Michigan
...mafioso. For years, Salvatore Lo Piccolo managed to mask his highest aspirations as he rose from loyal foot soldier to the upper reaches of the Mafia hierarchy. The 65-year-old Palermo native always seemed to know how to wind up on the winning side of internal feuds, a gift that eventually made him supreme boss in the Sicilian capital. But Lo Piccolo wanted more: control over the entire island of Sicily, expanded cooperation with U.S. mobsters, even the title of capo dei capi - the boss of bosses...
...been too much to bear. Barely three weeks after she died, writer Peter Viertel passed away, leaving behind his own legacy of books and screenplays. Best known for parlaying his relationships with writer Ernest Hemingway and director John Huston into novels like White Hunter, Black Heart, Viertel had a gift for exposing the dark nature that accompanied their genius. He made his mark in Hollywood by adapting famous novels like The Old Man and the Sea into popular films. Viertel...
...went with him, took a kayak for a trial ride and bought it immediately. I can't adequately describe the pleasure of paddling on lakes, rivers and bays. I have since bought a second kayak and a trailer for travel. By the way, the first kayak was my gift to myself for my 70th birthday. It's an age-irrelevant sport...
United States Senators Dianne Feinstein and Charles Schumer ’68 would have you believe that Attorney General nominee Michael B. Mukasey is a gift from the Bush administration. They find solace in his promise that he “would leave office sooner than participate in a violation of law.” But Mukasey cannot enforce the law if he does not know what...