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...precisely 1:25 p.m. on Hayes Street near Franklin in San Francisco, Mary Lou Breslin's motorized wheelchair spat out a shower of sparks and died. Breslin, 50, disabled by polio since childhood, had been shopping with her friend, Kathy Martinez, 36, who is blind. "I haven't been dead in the water for years," Breslin muttered angrily. With that, she and Martinez began to "strategize," their term for improvising in the face of emergencies. As able-bodied pedestrians moved past in a hurried blur, Breslin pulled out her cellular phone and started making calls...
...death, McCain survived by drawing on some fierce inner resource. When the North Vietnamese--knowing that McCain's father was the famous Admiral Jack McCain, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific forces--tried to release the young flyer early on as a propaganda gesture, McCain, crippled and skeletal, spat in their faces and let loose such an outpouring of naval obscenity that the startled North Vietnamese dignitaries flew backward out of McCain's cell like tumbleweed...
...feel-good denouement. A rotten script. One of the lessons of Vietnam was that political context counts--that it may, in fact, be everything. Boys who went off to Vietnam with John Wayne movies screening in their minds returned to Deer Hunter America, to be spat upon and cursed themselves...
...suit-clad executives spooned, slurped, swished and spat large amounts of steamy black brew in apparent satisfaction and enjoyment in a ceremony yesterday to mark Au Bon Pain's selection of a new flagship coffee...
...Captain Scott O'Gradyhad the grace to blush when America welcomed him home from six days of scavenging in Bosnia with the kind of publicity once lavished upon Douglas MacArthur. Navy pilot John McCain, on the other hand, survived nearly six brutal years in Viet Cong captivity and once spat in the faces of startled Vietnamese dignitaries. McCain, now the senior Senator from Arizona, is one of five notable or notorious Annapolis graduates and Vietnam veterans whose interbraided destinies make up Robert Timberg's "The Nightingale's Song" (Simon & Schuster; 543 pages; $27.50), a story thatTIME's Lance Morrowfinds...