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...important stagecraft, Bush invited the G.O.P.'s high priests of national security--former Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz (who was skeptical about the idea when Reagan embraced it)--to give his plan their seal of approval by standing with him. Some aides wanted a speech, not a press conference, fearing reporters would try to trip him up on nuclear arcana. But Bush, an aide said proudly, "answered all the questions himself!" As part of the effort to appear presidential, he even dispatched aides to give advance...
Stanford never looked back. Shouey and Dani Bell outscored the Crimson by themselves, finishing with three goals apiece. Crimson sophomore drivers Christine Meiers and Natasha Magnuson and freshman Jane Humphries added a goal apiece, but Stanford outscored Harvard 8-3 in the final two quarters to seal...
Another factor was the rapacious overuse of resources. The goats, pigs and sheep brought by the Norse ate or trampled the forests and shrub lands, eventually transforming them into bare ground. Without enough fodder, the farm animals could not survive. The Norse were forced to eat more seal, seabirds and fish--and these too became locally scarce. The depletion of Greenland's meager trees and bushes meant no wood for fuel or for repairing ships...
...dead father. A White House contact told a reporter that Starr--often cartooned as a hymn-singing Fundamentalist--was himself having an affair. Clinton friend James Carville collected tapes of phone calls made to his office discussing the sexual backgrounds of Starr's staff. (The tapes are now under seal in another lawsuit, and Carville denies circulating the material...
When Bob Hunter, right, and Paul Watson joined buddies in Vancouver in 1971 to protest U.S. nuclear testing in the Arctic, they didn't realize they were setting off their own explosion. Calling themselves Greenpeace, the Canadians went on to stage demonstrations against sealing and whaling, all with media-savvy stunts, like hovering over a seal pup in front of a huge icebreaker. Even so, Watson quit Greenpeace as too timid and started the more radical Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose tactics include ramming whaling ships. Eventually Hunter quit as well, but the two left a big legacy: a wavemaking...