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...roasting hot. The guide poles the skiff along the flats in a predatory silence, and you stand on the bow platform, with line stripped out, sweating through the sunblock lotion, ready to cast. Tarpon fishing is stalking. You must see the fish and cast to it. Hence its peculiar excitement, which far exceeds trout or even salmon fishing. "Look, look, out there, about a hundred feet, in the white spot, a big one, he's coming, ooh, thrreee of them!" You peer and scan and peer again, and see nothing. Then you do: a dark gray bar under the green...
Robert Maxwell sailed into the turbulent New York City newspaper world with his eleventh-hour purchase of the ailing Daily News. But News editors beware! The British media magnate has shown some rather peculiar proclivities as a publisher. His Pergamon Press, soon to be sold to a Dutch firm, produced a World Leaders series that seemed to specialize in official or groveling accounts of dictators. All have since been discredited and relegated to history's scrap heap. Among the titles...
...theory seems simple enough, but the peculiar epidemiology of AIDS has already raised disturbing issues about how these trials will be conducted. In particular, the populations at greatest risk for the disease -- including drug abusers, prisoners and prostitutes in the U.S., as well as truck drivers and military recruits in some African countries -- are not ideal candidates for a structured scientific trial. Drug abusers and prostitutes may be transients who are not easy to monitor, and inadequate transportation and communications in many African countries will hurt efforts to keep track of volunteers...
When the Florida state comptroller announced he was going to yank B.C.C.I.'s license to operate in the state after the conviction, he received a peculiar letter from the Justice Department in Washington. "We are . . . requesting that B.C.C.I. be permitted to operate in your jurisdiction with the understanding that certain accounts may be maintained by the bank at the request of the Department of Justice which otherwise would be closed to avoid legal and regulatory violations," wrote Charles Saphos, then chief of the Criminal Division Narcotics section. "I was confused by what they wanted," says Florida Comptroller Gerald Lewis...
Traditionally, politicians build coalitions of supporters. Gorbachev has done the opposite. He has managed to make a peculiar virtue out of having detractors on all sides...