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...brother, father, husband, Senator, living history, American legend. He was sitting on a wicker chair on the front porch of the seaside home that held so much of his life within its walls. He was wearing a dark blue blazer and a pale blue shirt. He was tieless and tanned on a spectacular October morning in 2006, and he was smiling too because he could see his boat, the Mya, anchored in Hyannis Port harbor, rocking gently in a warm breeze that held a hint of another summer just passed. Election Day, the last time his fabled name would appear...
President Mohammed Khatami strides across the Mehrabad Airport tarmac to the salute of soldiers in ceremonial sashes. Mullahs in dark robes, bearded aides in suits with tieless shirts and militiamen carrying Kalashnikovs trail him up to Iran's equivalent of Air Force One--an old American-made Boeing 707 from before the Islamic Revolution. In minutes he is roaring off to a speech--it is an anniversary in the Iran-Iraq war--near the Iraqi border. There is no mistaking Khatami when he slips back from the front of the plane, wandering down through a cabin decorated in late-1970s...
This is not your father's White House. If anything, it's your daughter's. Gone is the strict Bush dress code that required skirts for women and forbade beards for men. In its place are not just the usual gray suits but also women in pants, tieless men in sweaters and the occasional diamond ear stud. Instead of the highly compartmentalized Bush system, in which no one knew what others were doing, the Clintonites prefer giant, free-for-all meetings and speak the same hard-nosed patois of politics and policy. "This place is completely different," said a Bush...
...showdown at last week's meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna was taut and grim. At one of the long rectangular tables sat Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the elegantly groomed Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia. At another, roughhewn and tieless, was Seyyed Mohammad Gharazi of Iran. The issue before them was the control of OPEC itself. The result: a draw that deepened the most severe crisis in OPEC'S 22-year history and raised doubts about whether the organization can ever function as an effective cartel...
...after two days' acquaintance. The phone rings; it is Son David explaining that he just drove the family car into the Central Park lake. In the living room their parents are doing their radio show live; they must pretend that domestic crises are stopped at the door, like tieless men trying to get into "21." After all, Princess Grace is going to call any minute now from Monaco for an "eggsglusive" interview...