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...vehicles had dwindled to 18, and two of them were being towed by wreckers. One day, it took five hours to lurch just nine miles. To make up for lost distance and time, the soldiers in the 507th Maintenance Company slept little or not at all. They were cooks, clerks and mechanics, none of them tested in combat. They became bone weary and sleepwalked through the days...
...spring of 1903, Roosevelt used a trip out West to dramatize his commitment to preserving wild places. With the nature writer John Burroughs he followed birdsongs in Yellowstone Park, then rode mules into Yosemite with John Muir, the great preservationist and founder of the Sierra Club. Roosevelt and Muir slept under the stars and were covered overnight by a blanket of snow. T.R.'s journey from asthmatic ornithologist to hearty rancher turned President proved that a silver-spoon birth does not have to prevent a man from developing, over time, a broad vision and a rare kind of political gumption...
...contingency-fees partnership with a client, rather than charge ethical fees as all other professionals do? If I hadn't had to pay a fortune for professional insurance, I would have neither practiced the customary (but expensive) "defensive medicine" nor charged the fees I did. And I would have slept much better during my off-call nights. By the way, how do you say ambulance chaser in Hindi...
...gloating, he maintained a deliberately somber mien as he saluted American troops for the allies' most dramatic victory in Iraq since Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003. He didn't allow himself a public grin until half an hour later, at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast. While Washington slept, Iraqis had announced that an American air strike had killed Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, who competed only with Osama bin Laden for the title of world's most wanted terrorist. Speaking live for six minutes on the network morning shows, the President said coalition and Iraqi forces had "persevered through...
...fellow Law School student. Childhood friend Lidia Rekas, who has known Shakir since the fifth grade, says that her last memory of Shakir was when she helped Rekas prepare for the Graduate Management Admissions Test. “We stayed up all night and ate pizza, and I slept on her couch that night,” Rekas says. “Shirin’s absence leaves me with a huge hole in my heart.” A frequent triathlon competitor, Rekas vows to dedicate her Ironman performance this July to Shakir, saying that...