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...with his northwestern region of Piedmont. I have dropped his name to my other sources, and most simply shrug. Today I could see why. He was ambling alone toward a gate guarded by a pair of Swiss Guards. He too was without the Cardinal colors, wearing a short black overcoat over his black suit and clerical collar, with a peaked black woolen cap: looking more like the stooped village pastor in Bernanos' 'Diary of A Country Priest' than a man set to help choose the next pope. My colleague Jordan Bonfante approached him, and asked how he felt this impending...
...emerged from the Oval Office into the narrow hallway just outside it, I ran into Vice President Cheney. He was in his overcoat and was clearly in a hurry. He muttered a brief hello to me as he asked an aide who had come up behind me, "Do you have it?" The aide handed him a letter, which he tucked into his pocket as he rushed out. As I would soon discover, the letter was the President's answer to the appeal sent by Senator Hagel and his three colleagues the week before. In his reply, the President restated...
...visit of an American nuclear warship, Brown had a growing profile in Tasmania as a slightly eccentric, shy but deeply earnest young man. At Liffey he tried to write philosophy and "put forward ideas for a better world," but spent many days on this same verandah, in his overcoat as the snow fell around the cottage, despairing "that it was all too much...
...often; money was short. Reagan was 11 when he came home one day and found his father lying dead drunk on the porch. "I wanted to ... pretend he wasn't there," Reagan recalled. "I bent over him, smelling the sharp odor of whiskey ... I got a fistful of his overcoat [and] managed to drag him inside...
...radical here. As Page admits, his aim was to "do everything - Aboriginal content, a bit for the conservatives, a bit for the crazies, a bit of a circus. A universal smorgasbord." That he's delivered. By the end of the first week, there were the usual hits (The Overcoat) and misses (Night Letters). The former, a piece of bravura theater-making from Canada, mixes Buster Keaton with Gogol and - after seven years on the festival circuit - purrs like a Rolls-Royce. Letters, the State Theatre Company of South Australia's new four-hour adaptation of Robert Dessaix's intimate novel...