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...name a plane after Stephen Colbert? -Brandy Weisman, LondonI like to make people smile, and Colbert achieves that a lot. I love the way he mercilessly "takes the mickey" or has fun with the more extreme members of the Republican Party and, of course, pretends to be a Republican himself in such a clever...
Putting aside the bizarre incidents - like the time an FBI informant set himself on fire in front of the White House in 2004 or the time a small plane crashed into the White House in 1994 - regular, workaday fires like the one that happened this morning in Vice President Dick Cheney's ceremonial suite at the Old Executive Office are not actually all that common on the White House grounds. Given the 27 wood-burning fireplaces, high volume of bureaucratic traffic and constant maintenance and refurbishing, it is not too bad a record...
...awesome Cy Young season in Toronto: 20-6 with a 2.65 ERA. I'd been at TIME for two years, having been traded by Fortune for a features writer and an editor to be named later. I got off like a house afire - cover stories, features, business news, plane crashes, you name it. But in middle of the '99 season the managing editor pulled me aside for a little talk. I knew what was coming. "Your story starts are down," he said. "And your cliché count is out of sight. " I reminded the boss that...
...masseuse. An employee said there were no massage therapists available, but Purdy said he could fit her in, according to Hale. “When I went back [for the appointment], I was alone in the basement of an empty store with him, my mother was on a plane, and no one knew where I was,” Hale said. Hale came forward after hearing of Purdy’s 2005 arrest on prostitution charges. She decided not to press charges, believing that it would take a substantial amount of time for the case to be heard and that...
...Gaddafi's plane had barely touched the ground in Paris on Monday when the verbal ammunition among French politicians began flying over why President Sarkozy had chosen to host him during a five-day visit. France's junior minister for human rights Rama Yade blasted her government, saying that the visit would allow the Libyan leader to "wipe off the blood of his crimes." Unwilling to play the polite guest, Gaddafi spat back on Tuesday, saying said France had human-rights problems of its own in its treatment of immigrants, who include millions of North Africans...