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...that the press flacks tried to explain the remark as a reference to Bush's concerns about any future deals with North Korea, even though he used the present tense. Hence the "that's how the President speaks" remark, implying that he characteristically uses the present tense to refer to the future - a formula in which "I'll do it now" presumably means the same thing as "It can wait till tomorrow...
...Stone today downplayed his remark to the Globe. Asked yesterday by Crimson reporters about the comment, Stone replied, "Did I say that...
...early letter to Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten comments that "there are so many things that one can't talk about in a letter." This passing remark stands as a challenge to the reader of Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964. For while the whole of a relationship may not be captured in its letters, many of its details and complications lay buried within and between the lines, waiting to be uncovered. Emily Bernard's extensive collection and study of the 39-year correspondence between two of the Harlem Renaissance...
...Turkish constitution across the table at him, only to have it flung back by an Ecevit aide. The Prime Minister then stormed out, announcing, "This is a serious crisis." While there undoubtedly was conflict inside the conference room in Ankara, the "serious crisis" developed when Ecevit left. His remark was widely taken as a sign that his fragile three-party coalition-formed in mid-1999-was losing control, and the financial markets went wild. Overnight interbank interest rates shot past 7,000%, the lira lost nearly 30% of its value and the stock market about a third of its worth...
...Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa on July 30, 1975, the day Hoffa vanished; in Detroit. Giacalone, who was under a 21-count indictment for racketeering at the time of his death, never spilled the beans about what he may have known about Hoffa's disappearance and presumed death, except to remark, "Maybe he took a little trip...