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...Sherwood's case, the course was particularly tortuous. There were empty tables at the fund-raising lunch at Keystone College in La Plume, Pa. The audience response was appropriately tepid when the Congressman was introduced with his wife, who had previously refused to appear with him and now seemed to be keeping a safe distance. Sherwood, you may recall, was the fellow whose affair with a young Peruvian immigrant exploded when she locked herself in the bathroom of his Capitol Hill townhouse, called 911 and claimed the Congressman was trying to choke her. The Congressman, who said he was only...
...arranged for people to knock on doors of the sick and the elderly. We organized food delivery, and arranged water supply, got emergency generators to buildings without power or water. It was so eerie walking in SoHo and Tribeca, with the gusts of dirt, the debris everywhere, the plume of smoke. People tended not to be out. Traffic was cut off for a while. I think it was the closest any of us have come to living in a war zone. It was a war zone. The stench, the tingle on your skin. There were power outages everywhere. The fires...
...morning of June 28, the auction had concluded. But as accounts were being squared and sailors from the nine other whaling vessels were busy removing barrels and crates from the crippled Brunswick, yet another ship hove into view, from the south. Observing the ship's three masts and the plume of smoke rising from her, the whaling masters immediately concluded that she was an auxiliary steamer-so-called because she was powered by both wind and a steam-engine powered iron-screw propeller. Such vessels were rare, if not unknown, in these waters and, as the ship drew closer...
...such high-profile rematches as TV personality, actress and former New York City first lady Donna Hanover and her old beau and now husband, Ed Oster. Hanover chronicled her experience and others like it in My Boyfriend's Back: 50 True Stories of Reconnecting with a Long-Lost Love (Plume). But the biggest incentive may be that hooking up with a friend from the past holds the promise of future ease. "There is an expectation of immediate comfort with someone supposedly familiar, as well as an expectation of similar values based on a common history--and therefore perhaps...
...have pledged to cut their emissions 4% by the end of this year from the levels they averaged from 1998 to 2000. They have already taken tens of millions of tons of greenhouse gases out of play, which sounds impressive until it's compared with the 6 billion--ton plume of CO2 spewed into the atmosphere by the U.S. each year...