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...plane that smashed his windows was no ordinary craft. "It was diamond shaped. It could rise straight up and hover. One of those planes they aren't allowed to talk about. Their pilots crash into mountains all the time, but the Navy just covers it up. It's all hush-hush." A hundred miles east in ("The Loneliest Town on the Loneliest Road in America"), Walter Cuchine heard news of the loud booms and set out a coffee can to collect donations for an antiaircraft gun. "Last year one concussion knocked a Senator off his podium here, but whenever...
...more than ever. And whites are more multicultural. Fair-haired dreadlocks are commonplace. Fashion designers knock off urban street trends rather than the other way around. Gay rights are assumed: the latest campus cause is discrimination against "transgendered persons." Body piercing has gone mainstream. As in the return of Hush Puppies and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Xer chic is often retroeclectic. "Compared to any other generation born in this century, theirs is less cohesive, its experiences wider, its ethnicity more polyglot and its culture more splintery," write historians William Strauss and Neil Howe in their new book, The Fourth...
...here to eternity. Tell me again why I would want to run the nomination gauntlet to toil away in a huge government bureaucracy." Statements like that help explain why a nominee like businessman and Democratic fund raiser Terry McAuliffe withdrew his name from consideration for Secretary of Commerce. Even hush-hush high finance isn't a draw: two governorships on the Federal Reserve are vacant. Any takers...
...grew up in Georgia, moved north one summer 30 years ago, and haven't lived anywhere south of Brooklyn since. A few years ago I did spend July in Atlanta, where I found to my ethnic chagrin that at temperatures over 90[degrees] I could no longer digest hush puppies. You might accuse me of having some kind of compensatory agenda, like an ex-communist swung drastically to the right...
...able to find highly-lucrative employment has always been troubling, as was Hubbell's general recalcitrance after promising in December 1994 to assist them. To them, the reported $500,000 that Hubbell earned from various clients after resigning in the Whitewater scandal amounted to nothing less than a hush fund. But TIME's J.F.O. McAllister thinks that may be a stretch. "The story these guys are telling might actually be true. Webb was in fact a very popular guy around the White House at the time, and when he left, portrayed his trouble as merely a billing dispute...