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...With embattled Congressman Leonard Boswell at his elbow, Gephardt implored the faithful to pour on the energy: "Iowa literally has the ability to tell us who will control the House." But a man eating breakfast nearby was thinking about the campaign after that. As Gephardt strode out, the Rev. Peter Peterson of Knoxville's United Methodist Church offered his Bible and asked Gephardt to sign it, predicting, "You're the next President...
...light morning mist hangs over the jungle as Peter Taggart sets a hornbill on a tree branch. Taggart runs an antipoaching station in the Cardamom Mountains in southwest Cambodia, and the hornbill, a black bird with a white breast and an oversize yellow beak, has been confiscated from a local villager. "The guy was keeping it as a pet," says Taggart, who works for Washington-based Conservation International. "He said he didn't know it was protected, but they all know, really...
...Chilean coast to Argentina. He is now buying land on the coast of Patagonia in southern Argentina to establish a reserve there. Other big private purchasers include Alan Weeden of New York City's Weeden Foundation, who has bought some 200,000 acres in South America and Africa, and Peter Buckley, a former San Francisco lawyer and head of Esprit-Europe, who has bought rain forest in Latin American nations...
...psychedelic, Nash acquired the attic odor of a literary relic. The simple notion of an exact, if eccentric rhyme, Which Nash shared with the best lyricists of his generation, no longer applied in a day when songwriters twinned "June" with "broom" and "time" with "mine." Like Parker and Peter Arno, he represented The New Yorker's vanished ages. He vanished from the magazine's history, never once mentioned by Brendan Gill in "Here at The New Yorker's 428 pages. He died May 19, 1971, and by then, His passing was hardly more remarked than the ones he elegized...
Tauzin and investigations-subcommittee chairman Jim Greenwood are annoyed in part because the evidence provided by Stewart's lawyers has continually "tweaked" her story, Johnson says. In the June 12 letter, they said Stewart's Merrill Lynch broker Peter Bacanovic called her on Dec. 27, informed her that ImClone's shares had dropped below $60 and sold at 1:43 p.m. The chronology helped bolster her claims of an earlier stop-loss order. But her story changed with new documents obtained from Stewart's office six days later. Instead of a single call from Bacanovic on the afternoon...