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Yeltsin was a unique political mix. He combined a folksy, Reaganesque simplicity with a Nixonian sense of political intrigue (and paranoia) plus a tendency toward accidents that recalled Gerald Ford. On one occasion he was too drunk to leave his plane for a planned meeting with Ireland's Prime Minister--even though, I was told, aides slapped him to bring him to consciousness...
...unusually bitter retort for a man who for years has called the media "my base." Later, on the plane to Columbia, S.C., McCain trudged to Nagourney's seat, miming an exaggeratedly shamed face. His wife Cindy had sent him to apologize for being rude, he said. "A thousand pardons," he asked. But the conversation turned into another round of the same debate. McCain had said he was sorry for not calling the press corps once he knew the King show released a transcript a few hours before it aired. That's not good enough, a reporter argued, "You told...
While the rest of my team settled themselves in the front of the plane (somehow I had been the only one banished to the nether regions), I made my way down the aisle. As I neared the rear of the aircraft, it distinctly seemed like the number of “undesirable” passengers (think: old men who fart, women with dogs, etc.) was increasing exponentially. Then in the very back, I saw what frightened me beyond comprehension: a (very) young dad with not one, but TWO, (very) young toddlers, the three of whom were occupying not only...
...Nixonian sense of political intrigue (and paranoia) plus a tendency toward accidents that recalled Gerald Ford. He once fell into a small river near his dacha outside of Moscow, surely drunk, possibly related to a tawdry love affair. On another occasion he was too soused to leave his plane to meet with the Irish Prime Minister - even as aides committed the ultimate lese majeste and slapped him hard to bring him to consciousness...
...year-old is evacuated by cargo plane two days before the fall of Saigon. A sexually abused runaway steals a wallet on a World Trade Center elevator on 9/11. An immigrant family treasures an old photo of a man holding a gun. While these images may seem purely dark, the writers who created them explained they are the source of humor as well as melacholy in a Harvard panel entitled “Dreams, Sex, Dust: Three Vietnamese American Writers.” Novelist Gish Jen ’77 moderated the April 12 event together with Cabot Professor...