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...poorly chosen word. He goes through periods when he takes on even friendly Senators and Representatives for sport. Devoted to trifocals, he seems to prefer to see things in conflict. You sometimes get the sense that Rumsfeld needs to fight to survive, the way sharks need to swim...
DIED. GERTRUDE EDERLE, 98, the first woman to swim across the English Channel; in Wyckoff, N.J. In 1926 she covered 35 miles in 14 hr. 31 min.--faster than any of the five men who had previously made the swim--and was called "America's best girl" by President Calvin Coolidge...
...white-and-green fishing boat. Some 85 people board the boat - two Egyptians, a Tunisian, a Libyan, an Ethiopian and the rest Somalis, including 13 women, one of them pregnant. They occupy every centimeter of space. This is not how Abdi Salan - who doesn't know how to swim - had imagined the crossing. But nothing has turned out as he'd expected, and he feels lucky to have his cramped spot on the peeling deck...
...DIED. GERTRUDE EDERLE, 98, American swimmer who was briefly a national icon after she became the first woman to swim the English Channel; in Wyckoff, New Jersey. Ederle accomplished the feat in 1926 in a then world-record time...
...Wilson] really had a comeback swim,” Stapleton said. “She was third about halfway through and almost caught the girl...