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...arrived, the president's privatewashroom was turned into a ladies' room (no breakwith precedent; it had always been so used duringCrimson dances,) I remember that for days someobject stolen from the Lampoon was stashed awaythere in the simple belief that no gentleman wouldeven enter a ladies' room, even in search ofstolen goods...
...fight and it is Lucas' artistic expression of these things that brings so many together for, yes, a movie. It really is true that the anticipation and opening of this film, drawing on our society's love for popular culture and, more importantly, often wordless search for truth, has brought people together like few other things can. Only once in my life have I sat in a theater of 700 people cheering throughout a movie, sharing the joy and wonder I felt with strangers...
Mount Everest is being stubborn about revealing its secrets. The international expedition which set out to find the remains of George Mallory, the Briton who 75 years ago died in his attempt to be first to climb the world?s highest mountain, has returned from its search -- and is split about whether Mallory succeeded. Although the team did find the explorer?s frozen remains in the snow -- including several letters, goggles, and other personal effects -- they did not find the body of his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, nor the object they dearly hoped to find: a Kodak camera, which might...
...people expected the expedition to find conclusive results," says TIME senior science writer Jeffrey Kluger. But one wonderful thing that did result from the undertaking, he notes, was the expression of good will and good nature that emerged from everyone connected to the search. "No less a person than Edmund Hillary said he was willing to accept the possibility that Mallory got there first," says Kluger. "That was a generous statement from the person who would be surrendering his place in the pantheon of explorers." Hillary and sherpa Tenzing Norgay, were the first to successfully reach Everest?s peak...
...film crew. Well, don't expect to see any more such programs. In two unanimous rulings Monday relating to such coverage by the Washington Post and the Cable News Network, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches "for police to bring members of the media or other third parties into a home during the execution" of a search or arrest warrant, if allowing such outsiders to tag along into the home is "not in aid of the execution" of the warrant. Though aimed at police for overstepping their authority...