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...joint project after deciding that Felt's mental capacity was far too diminished. But at least Felt knows Deep Throat will not go down in history as just a shadow in a trench coat. As the Washington Post itself put it, "It's nice to be able to honor him by his real name while he still lives." --Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles, Nathan Thornburgh/New York, Chris Taylor/ San Francisco and Karen Tumulty/ Washington...
...villa) offers one of the most romantic walks in Europe. It winds through luxuriant wooded paths, natural grottoes and ancient ruins, and leads to a spectacular 120-m waterfall. The landscape, featuring 2nd century B.C. architecture, inspired such 17th and 18th century artists as Nicolas Poussin and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and became a must-see stop on the Grand Tour. Later, Villa Gregoriana was admired as much for its role in averting floods as for its natural beauty. The flood-prone Aniene River washed away a good part of inhabited Tivoli in 1826, so Pope Gregory XVI, as sovereign...
...sake of your own families and children, for the honor and satisfaction of doing right, I bid you, the stewards of this great institution of higher learning and research, to join me in this essential effort,” he told the HMS crowd...
...speech to Bradford's sixth-graders about the duty of "citizen soldiers" to help Iraq's "nation building." No one realized how much the mayor had changed until April, when several hundred people gathered downtown to dedicate a patriotic wall, dreamed up by the soldiers' wives and families to honor all the townsfolk who had served in battle from World War I to Afghanistan and Iraq. The list started with 25 names and grew to 400. Bunn, not yet officially released from active duty but out on a pass from Fort Sill that weekend, gave a graphic speech...
Thawing relations between China and Japan were last week flash-frozen again after Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi snubbed Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi by canceling their meeting at the last minute; China later noted that Koizumi's recent comments on visiting the Yasukuni Shrine to honor Japan's war dead made "it unfavorable to the healthy development of Sino-Japanese relations." Here's how a single shrine continues to keep Asia's two powerhouses at odds...