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...here to defend the last eight years of President Clinton's administration," Gardner said. But he then smiled. "They exiled me to Madrid!" he said, referring to his recent tenure as U.S. Ambassador to Spain...
...MADRID--Flying standby is a lot like finishing a LSAT review class--you wish a lot of good people a lot of bad luck in the short term. Take, for instance, the mob of teenagers in this gate area. Normally I wouldn't wish the Fighting Tubeworm Marching Band anything but a good flight and a massive change in the social hierarchy of American high schools. But today I'm on standby, and they've got all the seats. So I've spent the last half-hour trying to give one of them food poisoning through mental telepathy...
...autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, is stuffed with lies, inventions and embroideries. Did he really, as he claimed, have to be restrained from throwing himself out of a window on seeing a locust in the room? Did he actually sit in the bar of the Ritz in Madrid and make cocktails out of his own blood? Did he truly associate animal glue, death and dung with sex? And how to square the youthful Dali--whom his fellow students at the Madrid Academy remembered as "bashful," "morbidly shy" and "literally sick with timidity"--with the self-corrupted publicity stunter...
Demonstrating the advances of current technology, Bezos delivered his speech via satellite from Seattle, and answered questions from the Internet, from people as far away as Madrid, Spain. He was unable to attend the conference in person due to the birth of his first child...
...After the New Madrid earthquake in the early 19th century, the Mississippi River ran northward for a little while, and millions of Deep South squirrels, with one mind, began migrating - in one vast, crazed undulation - toward Kentucky...