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...This was a China on the rise, a nation striving to return to the glory of the high Tang dynasty, when Chinese troops occupied territory as far away as today's Iran. Zheng He supervised the building of the fleet of "treasure ships," which assembled before embarking at the port of Liujia in Taicang, a coastal town 40 km from Shanghai...
...When it happened we were all caught off guard - including Kennedy. He was on board his yacht, the Marlin, pushing off from the family dock in Hyannis Port, Massachussets, preparing for a well-deserved cruise with family and friends and a couple of bowls of fish chowder, his favorite dish. A military duty officer rushed down to the beach with the first flash. He walked into the surf in full uniform to deliver the grim news to Brig. Gen. Chester Clifton, the Presidents military aide who signaled the Marlin back to port. He handed the dispatch to Kennedy who read...
...meet a possible 2002 challenge from term-limited G.O.P. Governor Lincoln Almond, the family pitched in. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were hosts for a concert at Manhattan's Russian Tea Room that hauled in $100,000. A clambake at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port cleared $75,000. In March, Patrick made a surprise appearance onstage at the Providence Newspaper Guild Follies. Dressed in a sailor suit, he sang a rewrite of the Gilligan's Island theme. ("I'd asked a gal whom I had met/To take an evening cruise./Little did I know that it/Would...
...Then came a Globe poll showing Max in a dead heat with state senator Stephen Lynch, an ex-ironworker who grew up in the blue-collar Southie neighborhood. That weekend, four days before Max was to announce his candidacy, his press spokesman, Scott Ferson, got a call from Hyannis Port. "I'm not going to do this," Max told...
...know whether to giggle or weep at the frequent miscommunications. Whenever his team mentioned a border crossing that they knew as Virginia Avenue, Mexican officials suddenly began discussing a route they called El Chaparral. It took nearly a year before Marasco realized they were talking about the same port of entry...