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DIED. FRANK GASPARRO, 92, chief engraver for the U.S. Mint from 1965 to 1981; in Havertown, Pa. Among his creations: the "tails" side of the current penny and the Susan B. Anthony dollar...
...wave of assassinations in Europe in 1817 prompted James Monroe to put sharpshooters on the rebuilt White House. The Confederate strategists had in mind capturing the White House with Abraham Lincoln inside, maybe having a mint julep on the porch. In the chaotic months after the Civil War the Army Engineers, who literally ran the Capital city, declared the White House a relic and wanted to move it to the more secure hills of Washington's Rockcreek Park. Ulysses Grant, realizing that the White House now was imbued with Lincoln's great mystique, stopped that...
...Mint chocolate chip or green...
...golden. Whether celebrating with a champion sumo wrestler, tossing a baseball back and forth with President Bush, or commiserating with leprosy victims mistreated for decades by the government, Koizumi has touched a downcast nation. A record label has released a CD of his favorite Elvis hits. There's a mint-flavored Koizumi chewing gum. Last week stores started selling a coffee-table book with snapshots of Koizumi in a bathrobe, Koizumi reading, Koizumi playing baseball, Koizumi eating noodles. "The whole country is depressed," says Masaaki Nagamoto, 45, a law clerk shopping for Koizumi kitsch one recent afternoon. "All our faith...
...enough of him. Youngsters, particularly female ones, rave about his hip, wavy hairstyle. A record label released a CD of his favorite Elvis hits, with Koizumi posing next to a life-size statue of "the King" on the cover. (They share the same birthday.) There's a mint-flavored chewing gum named after him. Millions of people tune in to watch him on televised parliamentary debates. His posters outsell those of pop stars and baseball heroes. Last week, a glossy photo book about him hit the stores, with a blurb from Koizumi that says, "Everything you want to know about...