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...waiting for his AirAsia flight at Kota Kinabalu's airport, says budget travel has belatedly introduced him to the joys of vacations. Before AirAsia, he almost never traveled for fun. But with tickets costing as little as half of what Malaysia Airlines charges, he's heading off to climb Mount Kinabalu-his second leisure trip in the past year. "The temptation to go on vacation is much greater than before," he says...
...Jefferson wrote the magic words of American history, the 55 words in the Declaration of Independence that begin 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,'" says Joseph Ellis, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College and the author of the award-winning biography American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. "That promise and those words are probably the most important words in American history--and possibly all of modern history...
...with Madison, he recruited the poet Philip Freneau to launch an opposition paper called the National Gazette. To subsidize the paper covertly, he hired Freneau as a State Department translator. Hamilton was shocked by such flagrant disloyalty from a member of Washington's Cabinet, especially when Freneau began to mount withering assaults on Hamilton and even Washington. Never one to suffer in silence, Hamilton retaliated in a blizzard of newspaper articles published under Roman pseudonyms. The backbiting between Hamilton and Jefferson grew so acrimonious that Washington had to exhort both men to desist...
...group also repeats its claims of responsibility for the attacks on Italian soldiers in Nasiriyah in which 18 were killed, the truck bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad and the death of Special Representative Sergio Vieira de Mello as well as the bombing of the Mount Lebanon Hotel in March. In the hotel attack, the cameraman is positioned too close to the blast and the camera crackles with digital static as the torrent of yellow and orange flame rolls toward...
...Holyoke Center—which is Harvard property and includes the offices of University Health Services (UHS)—and Mount Auburn Street were reopened at 2:06 p.m, HUPD spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara said. The suspicious package report came in at 10:57 a.m., CFD deputy chief James Burns said...