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...fact-finding trip to Asia in February went better than either side expected. Clinton let Bush have the lone bedroom on the Air Force plane--a gesture Bush appreciated. Although Clinton is a well-known raconteur on overseas flights, it turned out that Bush was the charmer on that trip, introducing everyone all around, taking a shine to a couple of Clinton's aides and generally making folks feel at ease. Clinton was more subdued, still recovering from his quadruple-bypass operation five months before, but not so much that he could resist staying up at night playing Oh Hell...
...April, Bush and Clinton went to the Pope's funeral together, trading stories almost nonstop on the plane ride over, a cabinmate reports. And then Clinton flew to Maine in June for a weekend of wall-to-wall recreation. Bush was so excited about Clinton's arrival that he volunteered to pilot his three-engine speedboat about 30 miles up the coast from Kennebunkport to pick him up in person at the Portland airport. (Fog, in the end, upended that plan.) When Clinton finally arrived, Bush had him out to sea within minutes, an experience that Clinton likened to "levitation...
...names, addresses, phone numbers, personal descriptions--that in a few days they and the Virginia-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were able to locate all the children's parents, whom rescuers had taken to San Antonio, Texas. The kids were whisked by a private Angel Flight plane to join them in San Antonio, where De'Monte and his family now live. "I was shocked, surprised and proud of my baby when I heard what he did," Williams, 27, says of De'Monte. "I tell him he's a superhero." And a humble one at that. "It feels...
Both Gatses guard their privacy closely, barring reporters from their plane and their home in Seattle. Melinda, in particular, has resisted the attention that comes with their wealth. For the first nine years of their marriage, she declined almost all media interviews. She quit her job at Microsoft after she had their first child in 1996. "I wanted to have some privacy in our community," she says. "When I took the kids to a preschool event, a mommy-and-toddler event, say, I could be like all the other moms...
...simply isn't true," says Kristen Rand, legislative director of the Violence Policy Center, a nonprofit gun-control group. An investigation is being conducted by the Miami-Dade police. But right now, the one person taking blame is Alpizar's wife. "He didn't want to get on the plane," passengers heard Buechner say after the shots were fired. "My husband is dead. It's all my fault...