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...million people make the pilgrimage to Death Valley each year, many as returnees. During a recent visit, I spotted signatures in the hotel registry from Massachusetts, Tennessee, Michigan, Nevada, California and Australia. I ran into a Russian couple on a hiking trail, a German family in the visitor's center and a French family in my hotel. "Because there is no desert in Europe, Europeans come to experience the extremes," says Toni Jepson, manager of public relations for Furnace Creek Inn & Ranch. "They are almost disappointed if they don't feel 120º...
...1960s sided with the U.S. to fight communism in Laos during the Vietnam War. Fabled for their resourcefulness and valor, many Hmong became members of a secret CIA-backed militia that helped rescue downed U.S. pilots and disrupted North Vietnamese supplies and troop movements along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through central Laos. The communist Pathet Lao movement?and its patrons in Hanoi?has never forgotten the Hmong's complicity with the Americans. Shortly after the Pathet Lao took power in 1975?two years after the U.S. had fled the country and left the Hmong soldiers to their fate...
...truth lies somewhere in a trail of e-mail. According to U.S. Attorney James Comey, one of Quattrone's colleagues suggested, in an e-mail dated Dec. 4, 2000, that company bankers clean out their files before the holidays. "Today, it's administrative housekeeping," the message says. "In January, it could be improper destruction of evidence." Quattrone replied, "I strongly advise you to follow these procedures." Days earlier, company lawyers had told him CSFB had been issued a subpoena. His lawyer, John Keker, says Quattrone is innocent. CSFB, which paid $100 million to settle the ipo charges, declined to comment...
...while the Crimson, Walsh later revealed, had decided to throw at the trail runner, Wallace somehow neglected to cover second base when the play developed. That allowed Mann’s throw to sail into center field and Randy Leonard trotted home from third to give Yale a one-run lead. The Bulldogs added one more run before the inning was over, and though Harvard got one back in the bottom of the 11th on an RBI single by Lance Salsgiver, Yale escaped with...
...Freedom Trail begins at the Boston National Historical Park Visitor’s Center at 15 State Street. Guided tours lasting 90 minutes begin every half hour from the center. Call (617) 242-5642 for more information. T stop: State...