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Biden first looked death in the face during the heady period after his 1972 election to the Senate at age 29. His wife and three children were returning from buying a Christmas tree in Wilmington when a truck hit them. His wife and infant daughter died; his two sons were critically injured. He considered giving up his seat, but his family rallied around him. His sister moved into the Wilmington house to take care of the boys, and he began his daily three- hour round-trip commute to the Capitol...
Breathing Lessons, like all of Tyler's work, is about character. But it is also about marriage as fate and mystery, something that grows, for better or for worse, in flood and drought. As Tyler puts it, Ira and Maggie's union "was as steady as a tree; not even he could tell how wide and deep the roots went." If Tyler believes that men and women have different ways of feeling about family, she does not elaborate. Yet there are familiar responses: Ira is frequently bemused and annoyed by the behavior of his wife and children; Maggie is spurred...
...iron law of scandal is that no matter how grave or trivial the initial offense, the press will inevitably reduce the issue to a simple question of honesty. By traditional, George Washington cherry-tree standards, Quayle appears to be guilty only of shading the truth. But there has also been a troubling pattern of lapses of memory surrounding Quayle's public statements since he was tapped by Bush. Initially, Quayle claimed he could not remember if anyone helped him get into the Guard. In an NBC interview Wednesday night, he conceded that "if phone calls were made...
...field without grass is an eyesore," wrote the Roman poet Ovid, "so is a tree without leaves, so is a head without hair." For centuries, bald and balding men have winced at such unkind references to their predicament. Conditioned to regard hairlessness as a male curse second only to impotence, they have historically taken drastic measures to undo their baldness. Some have pretended to own hair, bewigging their shining pates with nylon or natural locks; others have recycled what little thatching they have left, combing a few camouflaging strands across their brows or having "plugs" transplanted from one part...
When it comes to capers, Balfour cheerfully claims responsibility for THE DOG THAT REFUSED TO DIE. An abandoned dog in Hannibal, Mo., had survived being tied to a tree for three weeks by eating the bark. The local pound tried to put the dog down with a lethal injection. The animal was later found twitching in a heap of dead dogs, and the pound injected it again. When the Enquirer heard the story, it ran a contest to save the dog. "We brought him to Lantana and put him in a motel room, but he destroyed it by eating...