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Jody Powell, who died Sept. 14 at 65, was the cooler of Jimmy Carter's two top young aides. (Hamilton Jordan was hotter, more passionate.) Powell was an excellent press secretary--funny, unflappable, totally devoted to the boss. He was the descendant of nine Civil War veterans and, as W.J. Cash wrote, he exemplified the breed: slouching, joking, undisciplined and brilliantly lethal...
...tome runs to well over a thousand pages and includes entries from more than 200 contributors. Marcus and Sollors completed the work of compiling and editing the volume after four years, and it was published last week by the Harvard University Press...
...local columnist likened the scene in the moments after the win at Ford Field to Lourdes. "Wounds were washed clean. Souls were healed. Fans and players, some near tears, thanked each other for enduring," wrote Mitch Albom on the Free Press's website. "It was as if some mystical prison doors had been sprung, and everyone was getting to go home." Ultimately, the Lions may prove to be something for this beleaguered region to believe...
...Perhaps to dramatize the television blackout in metropolitan Detroit, a Free Press reporter drove some 160 miles across the state to Grand Rapids to live-blog the game from a chicken-wing restaurant. At a dinner party the night of the game, word of the Lions' win sparked mixed reactions. "Say what?" one woman asked upon hearing the news. Another dinner attendee, retired auto executive Mark Reynolds, compared the Lions to the New York Mets of 1969 - the year the Mets eschewed their status as one of professional baseball's worst-performing teams by winning the World Series. "They...
...over the years. The director has even made frequent visits to Switzerland in the past without any problem. His supporters claim that Swiss authorities finally caved in to U.S. pressure to nab the director. But Swiss and U.S. justice officials say they knew where he would be thanks to press releases by the Zurich Film Festival touting his presence to accept the award. "There was a valid arrest request, and we knew when he was coming. That's why he was taken into custody," says Guido Balmer, spokesman for Switzerland's Justice Ministry. Adds Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman...