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Although Silber has at times been linked to such "establishment" politicians as former Boston Mayor Kevin P. White and current state Senate president William M. Bulger, Silber has thus far successfully run as an outsider to state politics. As Pierre Robert, a Bellotti spokesperson, admitted on Wednesday, Silber rode the crest of an "angry reaction" to pull off the upset...
...unified march of Saddam's opponents has so far evoked awe around the globe, especially given the signs of fissure that emerged almost from the start. Many nations were simply uncertain how far military vs. diplomatic action should go. The fractures deepened when the U.S. rode out ahead of the posse by unilaterally declaring a blockade of Iraq. That, said most world powers, was a matter strictly...
...rode subways to his court appearances as a co-defendant in the Imelda Marcos trial, and his billions have shrunk to mere millions, if that. But after acquittal, the Saudi financier rose from the ashes and flew to Houston to announce formation of a new oil venture. Its name? Phoenix...
...guerrilla garb in order to pass through in a truck with a group of mujahedin. Stanley crawled into a burlap bag and hid among sacks filled with wheat. "On the one hand, I was scared," she recalls. "On the other hand, I felt absurd." On the way back, Stanley rode openly with the rebels, but dressed in a burka, a head-to-toe Muslim garment. All went smoothly until a border policeman hitched a ride. He sat inches from our costumed journalists for a half-hour trip that seemed like an eternity. "He didn't suspect a thing," says Nachtwey...
...through another ballot initiative, Proposition 13, that Californians slashed property taxes 57% in 1978; one year later, they approved a no less important cap on state spending. In the decade that followed, nearly 20 other states adopted similar measures, and Ronald Reagan and George Bush rode the antitax sentiment into the White House...