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...more than mistakes, Nixon asks him what word he would suggest. He tosses his clipboard aside and presents a three-count indictment - still a thrilling TV frisson. Nixon does say he let the country down, but couches his confession is so many subordinate clauses that he could leave the ring believing Frost's knockout was only technical. If the exchange lacks the score-settling flourish of Morgan's version, it leaves us with our abiding take on Nixon: Tricky Dick to the last...
...canals is even shaped like a fish, with an imposing tail bifurcating at the Isola di San Pietro. Over the centuries, the Venetians' empire-building navies gave them grandiose reason to stage an annual Marriage with the Sea--the doge on board a gilded galley flinging a ring into the lagoon in mythic matrimony. Last week, however, the sea wanted more than a ring: the Adriatic appeared to be reeling in all of Venice itself, grabbing at it with the worst floods La Serenissima has seen in more than 20 years...
...year later, Mike Huckabee is still looking for the woman who handed him her wedding ring at a Michigan campaign rally. "I don't have any money," he remembers her saying before she dissolved back into the crowd. For the former Arkansas governor, the gesture symbolized his remarkable campaign: a validation of the idea that anyone can be President, even a Baptist pastor with crooked teeth, no personal fortune but an amazing ability to communicate. His sixth book is part memoir and part political treatise, full of policy proposals, like a national sales tax, and harsh words for foes, including...
What's the best part of being a fighter? "When you're in that ring, you can float," De La Hoya says. "You can move around on your toes and feel invincible." Worst part? "The diet," says the welterweight (147 lb. max) who follows a strict organic regimen. "It's horrible...
...Still, it seems a long shot that Bush will ultimately throw his hat into the ring, and his temperament is a key reason. Like his President brother, Bush has a prickly, my-way-or-the-highway streak that isn't exactly well suited to the give-and-take of the Senate. That's not to say that the notoriously methodical upper chamber couldn't use some of Jeb's admirable, results-driven passion. But while his education reforms, for example, did raise the abysmal accountability level in Florida schools, their overweening emphasis on standardized testing and punitive measures is more...