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That 13 rebel colonies were willing to throw themselves on the mercy of one foreign power in order to dissolve their political bonds with another stood as the first of many ironies. That the nascent republic sent Franklin--stout, balding and 70--to play the role of seductive ingenue was another. Here was the man who believed that necessity never makes a good bargain, that God helps those who help themselves, sent off to perform a spectacular tin-cup routine. It was all the more spectacular in that Franklin had grave doubts about the proposition. He was firmly...
...Saddam end up in Yunis' house? As war loomed in late March, the garrulous businesswoman--a stout 36-year-old with bright red hair and brooding eyes--rented the place to Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti, a former business associate who headed Iraq's Republican Guard. Al-Tikriti did not tell her why he wanted the house, but Yunis suspected it might be used as a storage site or meeting place. When she returned to her home two days after the strike it was empty, but official papers were strewn everywhere. She found a box of AK-47 ammunition...
...look back at the 1960s, for instance, it's obvious that decade alone could provide 80; almost everything changed during those tumultuous years. America entered the decade as a young, brash superpower and left it chastened by the stout resistance of Ho Chi Minh's fighters in Vietnam and shaken by the deep divide over the war among its citizens at home. On the domestic front, women, gays and lesbians and young people joined blacks on the ramparts to press for their own liberation. Popular culture turned around so far and so fast that it became known as the counterculture...
...Action Man Dick Cheney seems the antithesis of flamboyance. Stout, gray and slightly stooped, his speech measured and monotonous, he comes across as someone who would shun risks. And yet there are stories. There is Cheney the teenager in Wyoming, attaching a rope to the hood of a car and taking turns with his friends water skiing down irrigation canals that ran parallel to roads outside Casper. There is Congressman Cheney in 1983, five years after his first heart attack and a year before his second, catapulting down a treacherous ski slope in Jackson Hole, Wyo., his red scarf flapping...
...Singapore's popular expat-heavy Brewerkz, (65) 6438 7438, micro has gone macro. The 840-sq. m brewery, opened in 1997 by the son of a teetotaling Methodist minister, makes 10 different original brews, from Singapore Pale Ale to Oatmeal Stout to Millennium Lager, available in a yard-size glass for a whopping $20 apiece. Like many other large brewpubs, Brewerkz also sells its microbrews in take-out bottles?but only on the premises. "We haven't pushed it to the greater world because I don't want to compete with the 900-lb. gorillas," says managing director Devin Kimble...