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...long as it by all rights should have taken him. Knievel, who had been in poor health for years from conditions including diabetes and hepatitis C, was best known for his death-defying jumps on motorcycles (and other vehicles) in the 1960s and '70s. But really the stuntman, born Robert Craig Knievel Jr., was best known, and loved, for his crashes. After a number of successful jumps - over cars, trucks, live animals - Knievel shot to national fame after ABC Wide World of Sports aired footage of him spectacularly crashing, and crushing his pelvis, while trying to clear the fountains...
Police found the body of John B. Edwards ’10 shortly after 11 p.m. yesterday at the Medical School's New Research Building, according to Robert P. Mitchell, a spokesman for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard police logs...
...suffer from wanderlust is to be in the thrall of travel, to have an itch to get out and see the world. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go,” wrote a brooding Robert Louis Stevenson in “Cheylard and Luc.” “I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move...
Difficult it may be, but the President's new fondness for diplomacy is bearing some fruit. On North Korea, Bush approved talks led by a top Clinton negotiator, Christopher Hill, who eventually delivered a deal to dismantle Pyongyang's nuclear reactors. And Robert Malley, a Clinton Middle East negotiator, argues that Bush stands a better chance than Clinton did of creating a Palestinian state. Says Malley: "The Israeli and Palestinian leaders share a personal bond and need for success, President Bush has more time left than Clinton did, and the Arab world is being actively courted...
...decade after most of Latin America returned to democratic elections, it was thought by now the region would also be governed more completely by democratic institutions. Instead, says Robert White, head of the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., and a former U.S. ambassador in Latin America, "Personalismo is alive and well," referring to the region's historical penchant for protracted personal rule. A chief reason, White notes, is that traditional democracy and capitalism have largely failed to improve Latin America's gaping inequality and frightening insecurity - so voters have largely decided to "cling as long as possible...