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...after the speech, which was written largely by Mari Maseng, wife of conservative columnist George Will, a Dole aide admitted that the Senator also had not seen most of the movies he talked about, nor had he heard most of the music. On Friday aboard his Gulfstream jet, Dole finally popped Natural Born Killers into the VCR. "Probably ought to take a look so I can say I've seen this thing,'' he joked to a TIME reporter over the phone. "Then we can always throw it out the window...
Winsome is one of the very few young talented actresses in this school," says Tanya S.J. Selvaratnam '93, who performed with her in several plays, including Jet of Blood and Skin and Bone during Brown's first year. "She's someone I would expect will do exciting things in the future with her acting. When I see Winsome act, it hits me in the womb--She's a natural...
Diehl has many tales. Last year a C-130 cargo plane collided with an F-16 fighter jet over Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina, killing 24 people. The so-called composite-wing policy that grouped perhaps incompatible planes at the same base was not evaluated by investigators. It was the idea of General Merrill McPeak, the service's top officer before he retired last fall. "Other investigators felt this issue was at the crux of the accident, but dared not bring it up again," Diehl writes. Instead an air-traffic controller was blamed. The pilots involved have resumed...
...incident that occurred last August and was described in intelligence reports typifies Mexican corruption. U.S. officials alerted Mexican government authorities that a Caravelle cargo jet packed with 8.5 tons of cocaine was heading into Zacatacas, in north-central Mexico, from Colombia. "By the time the local police got through with it, there were only 2.5 tons left," says a U.S. State Department official. Days later, packages of cocaine with the same markings as those in the Caravelle turned up in seizures at the U.S. border...
...publicity from the case--there are picturesin Jet magazine of Johnson-Arbor as a toddler,holding the child-support check--alienated herfather, who did not speak to either her mother orher for years afterwards...