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...political reporter for the Washington Post, Taylor earned a footnote in political lore when he asked Hart, "Have you ever committed adultery?" It was a question many believe transformed presidential politics, and for the worse. But Taylor argues in See How They Run that Hart, because of his reckless behavior and his challenge to reporters to "follow me," was a special case. Hart "took too literally the invitation in the old Beatles song: Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" Adds Taylor: "Do, if you like. Just don't expect the rest of us not to watch...
...become part of Harvard lore that Rosovsky once told a group of undergraduate protestors, "You will be here for four years. I will be here for the rest of my life. Harvard will be here forever." Rosovsky has said that the quote is apocryphal...
...101st Airborne traveled from Fort Campbell, Ky. -- gave the troopers a parting thought: GET THEIR GAS AND KICK THEIR ASS. Adrenaline, jingo and doubt mingled with sheer weirdness and a sort of emergency-issue nostalgia, as if Americans were rummaging through old LIFE magazines, dipping back into the lore of World War II to discover the styles of leave taking, of sweethearts' goodbyes. Television-news shows offered small touches of the USO, airing video postcards from soldiers newly arrived in the gulf, grinning and sweating and reassuring Mom. Said a soldier, cheerful and earnest: "We're here fighting for America...
...went alone and without notes. His argument -- that since a boat could not get to the ocean from the lake, it was not a navigable waterway subject to federal control -- was so cogent and airtight that the Coast Guard withdrew its claim. This case added to the legal lore in the state that no one who is party to a case ever knows more about it than Souter. Says Merrill: "You can always count on David to have read relevant cases that you haven't heard of. He'll say, 'There's an interesting line of 17th century British cases...
Call me no fun, call me a hater of comic lore. But I'm neither. Honestly, I would have loved to see a film done with all of the simple plots we all know and love so well--hero chases bad guy, puts him behind bars and then vows eternal love to his sweetheart--but the problem with Tracy is that it left a boring plot boring...