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...Corazon Aquino in 1986). A twice-divorced American socialite, she was, to Britain's King Edward VIII, "the woman I love," for whom he abdicated the throne in a saga that shook the monarchy. Their love was deep, but their long, resplendent exile as Duke and Duchess of Windsor struck some as arid and irrelevant. Still, when the King announced his decision, she was, as TIME wrote, "the most talked-about, written-about, headlined and interest-compelling person in the world...
...9/11, Mrs. Bush was headed to the Capitol for a Senate education hearing when the second plane struck the World Trade Center. Committee chairman Ted Kennedy recalls seeing her looking "so alone" as she walked down the hall toward him. As she tried to reach her daughters, mother and husband, she was struck by the fact that she was watching, with Senator Kennedy, the worst tragedy since his brother John was assassinated. Together they went to the Caucus Room to calm the press. Kennedy says, "You take the measure of a person at a time like that. She is steady...
...suicide bombers struck the busy Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem, killing 11 Israelis. One of the bombers was from Hamas; the other had just resigned from the Palestinian General Intelligence...
...Sinking Feeling U.S. submarine, the Greeneville, struck and sank the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing boat, off the Hawaiian coast on Feb. 9. Nine Japanese, including four teenage students, died in what amounted to a joyride for the sub, complete with maneuvers conducted for civilians who had donated money to the Navy. The Japanese public was further outraged when the sub's commander, though reprimanded, was not court-martialed. The Navy, after admitting responsibility, is now negotiating compensation with the families of the dead...
...Twice in recent years Brinkema has struck down bars on access to Internet porn as First Amendment violations. In one case she nixed a Virginia county's ban on access to such material in its public libraries and in the other, she said that Virginia employees couldn't be barred from accessing porn sites on state-owned computers. Her decision in the state employees' case was overturned...