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...boot, having had an affair with his "niece." Whatever the nature of Patton's involvement with Jean Gordon, it was not incestuous, since Gordon was not his blood relation. She was the daughter of his wife's half sister. We hope that Patton will be remembered as a hero who shortened the war and saved American lives, rather than as an incestuous philanderer. STEVEN AND BERNADETTE MUTZ Old Greenwich, Conn...
...Arafat?s failure to remove three of her colleagues accused of corruption last year, Mikhail-Ashrawi, a former literature professor, was also offended that Arafat did not consult her before switching her from the Ministry of Higher Education to the Tourism portfolio. By quitting, Mikhail-Ashrawi has become a hero to a public fed up with the malfeasance rampant in Arafat?s administration. Her office and home have been deluged with phone calls from well wishers. ?They say, ?You?re the only man in the Cabinet,?? reports Mikhail-Ashrawi, who was in fact one of only two women. A source...
Maxwell said Monahan suffered emotionaldistress only for doing his job. "There's noquestion in my mind that in my view Monahan is atrue American hero," he said...
...years ago, when he was 53 and she was 18. In her book "At Home in the World," to be published by St. Martin's Press, she provides a look at the reclusive author of the iconic 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye," about the disillusioned young hero Holden Caulfield. Maynard says Salinger, who has not published a book since 1965, told her publishing is "just more of a damned interruption than I can tolerate anymore." But she says he wrote every day for hours, and by 1973 had completed at least two more books...
...Friday, the flag flying over the Capitol was lowered to half-staff. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Florida Senator Connie Mack visited Gibson's family at the hospital and stopped at the Chestnuts' home to see the officer's wife and children. Gingrich told them their father was a hero. But tragedy did not distract some politicians from the opportunities at hand: by 6:30, staff members for New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli were distributing a press release to reporters calling for tighter gun control. Weston, after emergency surgery during the night, lapsed into a coma and was placed...