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...found his fighter.When Ulysses S. Grant took command in the East, Lincoln didn't, for once, demand specific plans. Six weeks later Grant had lost more men than every general before him, but Robert E. Lee's army was bottled up in Petersburg, Va. "Hold on with a bull-dog grip," Lincoln urged Grant. Unlike his predecessors, Grant...
Lincoln professed to Grant that he just wanted someone to "take the responsibility and act." But as Robert E. Lee's legend grew, so did the list of failed Union commanders...
...prestigious international olive-oil awards in 2001, 2004 and this year. The company specializes in Italian olives and was recently honored with inclusion in the authoritative book Best Olive Oil Buys Around the World by Judy Ridgway-a critic who is to the world of olives what Robert Parker is to wine. Derived from fairly young plantings, Moutere Grove's oils can exhibit annual variations-grassy one year, lemony the next. Taste for yourself, by ordering from mouteregrove.co.nz...
...DIED. Robert Six, 79, high-flying founder of Continental Airlines who bought into a three-plane mail service in 1936 and built it into a major carrier, which, in the early '70s, squeezed out the industry's highest revenues per employee; in Beverly Hills. One of the last scarf-and-goggles airline pioneers, he introduced discount fares in 1962, predicted that deregulation would mean the end of good service and watched Continental decline until it was taken over by Texas Air shortly after his retirement...
...what are they playing? Why, Newman is once again Fast Eddie Felson (aka the Hustler in Robert Rossen's pungently atmospheric 1961 classic), now resting on his legendary status among pool players; Cruise is Vincent, a wacko pretender to Eddie's former throne. Ultimately, one knows, art should imitate the players' situation: these men should cross cues to determine sovereignty over pool's dingy domain...