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Harris is getting a lot of overnight invitations. This not only gratifies his populist instincts but cuts down on cam paign expenses. Harris will not be able to hide much - whether he eats crack ers in bed or is cranky before his morn ing orange juice. There is something to be said for a little distance...
...million. By his own account, his rise began when he visited Oman in 1952 on an archaeological expedition. There, said Phillips, he met and became friends with Sultan Said bin Taimur, who informed him, "By the will of God we shall have oil, for I am grant ing you the oil concession for Dhofar" -an area the size of Ohio. Phillips went on to become one of the largest individual holders of Middle Eastern oil concessions...
...journalist writes history in the best of ways, that is in the moment that history takes place. He lives history, he touches history with his hands, he looks at it with his eyes, he listens to it with his ears. Listen, Herodotus in his day was a damned f__ing journalist...
...Sylvia who discerned why: "When you're looking at Christabel, you're look ing at an emancipated woman...
...farms, grew their own corn and potatoes, made most of their own clothes. In the not-yet-crowded countryside and seashore, the woods were full of wild game and the waters of cod, carp, shad and salmon. Life was tough and dangerous but self-sufficient. What now seems amaz ing about this hardy era was the immense national feeling of self-confidence-the feeling, summed up in the phrase still imprinted on the back of every dollar bill, that America was a "new order of the ages." Toward the impressive contemporary Europe of Beethoven, Hegel, Napoleon and Goethe, the rude...