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What probably clinched the deal was Kerry and Edwards' hush-hush meeting on July 1, a 1-hr. 45-min. session at former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's Georgetown house, to which Kerry had summoned Edwards from a Disney World vacation with his family. But Edwards didn't get the call until early Tuesday morning--almost 14 hours after Kerry had called a plane-decal company and asked it to add Edwards' name to the side of his Boeing 757. The offer made and accepted, Kerry told Edwards: "There will be a team at your house within an hour...
...They are just jealous and angry that I broke the old record." PEMBA DORJE, Sherpa guide, whose claim to have climbed Mount Everest in 8 hr. 10 min. on May 21 is being challenged by rival climbers
Perhaps realizing that 2 1/2 hr. is a marathon length for a bedtime story, screenwriter Steve Kloves tried a few changes to make this one 15 min. shorter than the first Potter film and 25 min. shorter than the second: take the story at a sauntering pace; ditch the Quidditch, mostly; and (we'd argue with this choice) drop the novel's most arresting scene, a flashback to an earlier band of Hogwarts students on a cross-species nighttime prowl...
...spots on this Jersey bus tour include Bada Bing, Pizzaland and various gangland murder sites. Bonus: see St. Cecilia's, the Sopranos' church. Cost: $40 for the 4-hr. tour...
...hr. 10 min., Nepalese mountaineer Pemba Dorje Sherpa completed the fastest-ever ascent of Mount Everest from base camp last week, shaving more than two hours off the old record. Pemba Dorje's feat was one of survival as well as speed: in the same week, four climbers died on Everest...