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...were still in the train station. As I slept, or attempted to, on hard plastic seats, Susannah stayed awake and listened to the music: “From a Distance,” “Sarah,” “Only You,” “Purple Rain,” “Natural Woman,” “Toy Soldiers.” The list was long and horrible...
...book that really makes the grade with high-class people stands you in good stead for years to come." And so in 1940, Joe enlisted his friend Arthur Krock, a columnist for the New York Times, to edit Jack's senior thesis from Harvard into a book--Why England Slept--and shop it to a publisher. Joe quietly bought up more than 30,000 copies of the book, which not coincidentally became a best seller...
...months after the disappearance of Einhorn's blond and wispy, tragically beautiful 30-year-old lover, Philadelphia police climbed the stairs to his shabby second-floor apartment. In a steamer trunk no more than a few feet from the bed where Einhorn slept, homicide detective Michael Chitwood found the mummified body of his girlfriend. Holly Maddux's skull had been fractured in six or more places under the angry force of a blunt object. Chitwood, now the police chief in Portland, Maine, remembers the dialogue to this day: "I turned to Einhorn and said, 'It looks like we found Holly...
...passengers over the age of 50 taking flights of eight hours or longer found one in 10 developed early signs of DVT afterward. In February, a 10-year-old girl was struck down with DVT after a 13-hour flight from London to Hong Kong, during which she slept in an economy-class seat without moving. Since the beginning of the year, separate DVT suits have been filed against Cathay Pacific, Delta Airlines, Air France and Greece's Olympic Airlines. Australian Anthony Sharp's case against Cathay claims the 45-year-old developed a pulmonary embolism after an international flight...
...weeks in the office of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.), I’ve done a fair share of all sorts of office jobs. I’ve copied, stamped, faxed, filed, called, stapled, collated, stuffed, sealed, slacked, typed and slept. I haven’t forgotten a cover sheet to a TPS report, but I have botched other relatively simple tasks. I’ve had to put up with a Milton-like character who may actually one day set the Russell Senate Office Building on fire if he doesn?...