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...though: Republican donors are scrambling to throw money at the First Lady?s likely opponent. Having raised $90,000 on Tuesday in Little Rock and New Orleans, Mayor Giuliani will have netted an estimated $200,000 after a swing through Alabama Wednesday. But the mayor?s aides may have taken the theatrics a little far for some New Yorkers. Giuliani?s somewhat rocky record as a racial healer was unlikely to be enhanced Tuesday by the spectacle of the Arkansas flag ?- with its strong Confederate imagery ?- being raised over City Hall in downtown Manhattan...
Some of these tragedies came unbidden, like the assassinations and the plane crashes. Some were partly self-inflicted, like the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick, which happened 30 years almost to the day that J.F.K. Jr.'s plane went down in waters not far from there. Taken together, they make a chain of mishaps that has shadowed the Kennedy name for more than a half-century. But when John and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, their death seemed, if nothing else, at least commensurate with the drama and weight of their public life. When their children die prematurely...
Though we did not always see the pictures of John-John that were taken backstage by Captain Cecil Stoughton, the official White House photographer, we heard the stories of the young ham. When he lost a front tooth, he proudly looked up at Stoughton to show the great gap. Indeed, Stoughton and John-John became buddies of a sort. The photographer knew a good subject when he saw one and realized that someday history would treasure those images. John-John liked the captain's company, so much so that often when he saw Stoughton he would squeal, "Take my picture...
...minutes. Blackwell's sold 92 in the first half hour. At Storyteller, in the small town of Thirsk in north Yorkshire, a staggering 56 were snapped up that first afternoon--"and we don't usually sell books in hardback at all," says store owner Judy Turner, who has taken to selling the book at cost rather than confront the "droopy faces" of those who cannot afford the $17 cover price. Less than two weeks after its release in Britain, the book has gone through 10 printings and sold 270,000 copies, outstripping its nearest competitor, Thomas Harris' Hannibal. "I haven...
...previously unknown and unpublished Joanne Rowling, 33, who lives in Edinburgh with her five-year-old daughter, is a bit stunned at her snowballing success. "I do feel sometimes as though someone has taken the lid off my stone," she confesses. "I feel very exposed." Shunning a press tour for the new release, she is busy working on the fourth of what will be seven books--one for each year Harry attends Hogwarts, his wizard school...