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...President is going to stay close to his rocky shore in Kennebunkport, Me., in this campaign and pick up the phone when his son calls, which is almost every day. Some of the media will probably go nuts believing the deposed king is in a sinister power push for glory. But as much as anything, the talk will be about how the striped bass are running off the Maine rocks and how much water has collected in the new seven-acre lake built on W.'s Texas ranch. "It's beautiful," injects Barbara. "It has a river running through...
...Time surges noisily in, and recedes, rustling the round stones on the shore below us. The first summer vacation of the new millennium, the first mid-July's night's dream...
...Constitution, the oldest commissioned warship in the U.S. Navy, was towed out to sea to begin the parade by escorting the other Tall Ships into the harbor. As she re-entered the harbor at the head of the procession, an artillery salute in her honor was fired from the shore. The artillery also fired salutes to several of the other Tall Ships as they entered the harbor...
...time and patience. We could at best splash in it a little, to see what it felt like, and what we might learn--and unlearn--by stopping along the way. It was worth remembering Huck Finn's lesson: the river is the sanctuary; the shore is where you get into trouble...
...that the court mysteriously reshapes the views of those who ascend to it. But that idea doesn't withstand scrutiny, says Harold Spaeth, a Michigan State professor who has spent 40 years demystifying the court. Ike's nominations of Earl Warren and William Brennan were political deals, designed to shore up his support in California and New Jersey and made without regard for ideology, "so it's no wonder they didn't vote the way he liked," says Spaeth. "Presidents who are more careful get more predictable results. There aren't a lot of surprises...