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...roiling energies of young America. As early as 1964, he saw Ronald Reagan as "the prototype of the new mythological American...who will probably someday be President." One year earlier he noticed that Richard Nixon was indestructible, "a vengeful Zero with nine lives." Thompson, in fact, was that loneliest of creatures, an idealist without illusions, ready to kowtow to no one and as contemptuous of beatniks and hippies as of the "rotarians" they rebelled against. Surveying the 1960s like a clenched Kerouac, he lamented the death of John Kennedy, in the terms of his beloved Scott Fitzgerald, as "the death...
...eyed about a creature that sees me essentially as a high-protein pick-me-up. If there's any reason to keep bears around, it's because they are, in fact, beaten--reduced to a few thousand representatives of a once mighty race, driven back into some of the loneliest real estate in the land. Glacier National Park, with its few hundred surviving grizzlies, is a lot safer than Central Park. Why, there's even a faction of scientists that wants to keep smallpox around, although one cleverly deployed tube of the stuff could wipe out a city...
...kidnapping trial. When she was convicted in 1992, the Mandelas separated. Nelson told the court Monday that he was determined to end the marriage, and said there had be no intimacy in their marriage since he returned to live with his wife in 1990. "I was the loneliest man during the period I stayed with her." The marriage may have been troubled for decades. "Monday, Mandela suggested that he was having marital problems even before going to jail," says Hawthorne. After testifying, Mandela shook hands with his 60-year-old wife, who is reportedly seeking $5 million. A hearing...
...kidnapping trial. When she was convicted later that year, the Mandelas separated. Nelson told the court that that he is determined to end the marriage, and said there has be no intimacy in their marriage since he returned to live with his wife in 1990. "I was the loneliest man during the period I stayed with her." The marriage may have been troubled for decades. "Today Mandela suggested that he was having marital problems even before going to jail," says Hawthorne. After testifying, Mandela shook hands with his 60-year-old wife, who is reportedly seeking a $5 million settlement...
...This is always the loneliest time of the yearon campus. The weather is always miserable and noone is around," Horowitz said...