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...prescient analysis of some of the forces that would conspire to deny him the White House three decades later. But while Gore's political career may be over, his fascination with television is taking a new turn. Gore has reincarnated himself as an activist entrepreneur and is about to mount what could be his most ambitious campaign yet: to transform the medium itself...
...relax." Clark's son Iain said he wished someone else could have gone instead of his mom because he was missing her. She had taken with her a sheet containing all the pictures and fingerprints of his second-grade classmates. She emailed her family about how beautiful Mount Fuji looked from space, and the Sahara Desert, and the stars, up close. The fears that weighed on her family sat lightly on her. "To me, there's a lot of different things that we do during life that could potentially harm us, and I choose not to stop doing those things...
...each year up to 12,000 Stevensonians, tourists and scholars climb the hill to peer into the world of a man who has kidnapped the imagination of generations. Devoted pilgrims will hike a further hour to the author's final resting place on the peak of Mount Vaea. Here, under the breadfruit trees, they can wonder about his death at 44 from a brain hemorrhage, whose suddenness turned his life "into a fable as strange and romantic as one of his own," Henry James wrote to the distraught Fanny. "There have been ? for men of letters few deaths more romantically...
...with "indigenous people - their aspirations, their problems trying to hold their own against outsider influences, whether they were missionaries, colonial or business people." Nearly a quarter of a century after they gained independence, Samoans are relaxed in the author's presence. Each afternoon, shop keeper Henry Nickel jogs up Mount Vaea, takes off his flip-flops and does stretches by Stevenson's grave. "I just come here to exercise," he says...
...Samoa. Regular steamer connections with Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. meant the bestselling author could keep up serial publication of his writings. As well as novels and short stories, there were travel pieces, political reportage, poetry and prayers. Stevenson never thought small. "His wish to be buried on Mount Vaea was in keeping with that largeness," says Samoan-born writer Albert Wendt. But somewhere along the way, the writer got lost. "When we came to the scene, the memory of Tusitala was becoming almost mythical," says RLS Preservation Foundation president James Winegar, a former Mormon missionary from...