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...Booth leaps to the stage, but his spur catches on a draped flag. He breaks his leg in the fall. Fleeing, Booth shouts "Sic semper tyrannis" (Thus always to tyrants), the state motto of Virginia. Some say he added, "The South is avenged...
...Vladimir Horowitz. Since joining the magazine in 1981, Walsh has logged some 50,000 miles a year covering musical events and personalities. In the past 14 months he has visited San Francisco, Japan, London, Paris, Austria, West Germany--and even East Germany, for the opening of Dresden's restored Semper Opera House. "We look for the unusual," says Walsh, "new music of international significance and productions of older music that work especially well or have a special cachet. The only way to keep abreast is to be there, and that means having the stamina of an ox, durable carry...
...about favors from the boss; and William Agee, 47, her mentor as chairman of Bendix from 1977 to 1983 and her husband of three years: their first child (he has three children by a previous marriage); in September. The couple now run their own venture-capital and consulting firm, Semper Enterprises, on Cape Cod, Mass...
...Semper fidelis, the United States Marines' motto, commands members of the élite corps to be ever faithful. Former Marine Major Scott Ritter retains the military bearing and cropped haircut of his 12 years in the service. But he has lost faith in his government's policy toward Iraq, where he was the top inspector for UNSCOM, the United Nations weapons inspection team. He quit that post in 1998, complaining that the Clinton Administration was letting Saddam Hussein off too easily. No one would levy the same charge against the current White House, but Ritter is now even more critical...
...they rose in Germany. The Elbe River reached a historic high, sending thousands of people fleeing from their homes in the southeastern German city of Dresden. While emergency services concentrated on evacuating residents from the danger zone, authorities also worked furiously to minimize damage at the city's historic Semper Opera House and Zwinger Gallery, with its great art collection. Across southeastern Germany, floods have forced more than 30,000 people from their homes and killed 11. RUSSIA Aid Worker Seized A Dutch employee of the international medical aid group Médecins Sans Frontières was abducted...