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What's in a name? The Secret Service's secret code names for the candidates tend to be apt. Albert Gore is known as "Sawhorse," reflecting his stolid, down-home style, and George Bush is called "Timber Wolf," evoking his slightly frenetic doggedness. Jesse Jackson's moniker is a bit more mysterious: "Pontiac." Says an agent of his superiors: "It was probably just something they came up with one day over lunch." Or perhaps it has something to do with the ads that tout, "We build excitement...
...father and me, the Indians are a language. They are a secret ritual by which we renew our heritage, our connection to each other. The Indians are our cause. Even if the cause is lost...
...contradictions extend to his personality. In public, the buttoned-down Gore is solemn and earnest. A joke among the press corps is, How do you tell Al Gore from his Secret Service protection? Answer: He's the stiff one. In private, he is funny and irreverent, a good mimic and storyteller. In the right setting he will debate not only the virtues of the Midgetman missile, but whether the Beatles were a better group than the Rolling Stones (yes, he says...
Part of the reason for this mistaken identity is that my very existence has to remain a secret to keep the government scientists off my case. I have managed it through a brilliant scam: practically everyone thinks I'm a puppet! Sustaining this conspiracy takes a few collaborators. My main partner is a onetime comic magician named Paul Fusco. He actually claims to have invented me. Sure, he talks like me, laughs like me, jokes like me, even sort of looks like me. But I'm 230 years old and he's 35, barely old enough to have...
...thought he had taken a complete inventory of belongings in his family's Highclere Castle last July. Then a 75-year-old family butler helping him interjected, "Except for the Egyptian stuff, my lord." Thereupon he began revealing more than 300 ancient objects that had been hidden in secret cupboards and unused rooms of the castle for more than 70 years. Among the trove was a 3,200-year-old carved wooden face of Amenophis...