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...pictures of every visiting dignitary who would sit for him. He arranged with U.N. officials to set up a small studio near the General Assembly. Over four days he prevailed on no fewer than 35 Presidents, Prime Ministers and foreign ministers to pose with their national flags. From this trove, TIME's editors chose 15 portraits to illustrate this week's story on the U.N. observances...
...gateway drug”—an artist or band that was just “mainstream” enough to be visible to our young and impressionable eyes, but ballsy enough to put out music that reformatted our synapses and led us to a treasure trove of lesser-known acts. For me, that drug was the living embodiment of the 1990s, Beck Hansen...
Police and FBI agents say they are chasing every lead in the slayings. They have released sketches of two men who were seen near the house on the morning of the murders. And they are analyzing a rich trove of evidence from the scene, including shell casings and a possible fingerprint. But they say it's too early to draw a clear profile of the killer. Judge Lefkow and her husband were involved in hundreds of cases. Several of hers featured violent characters ranging from Mafia hit men to street thugs. Just last year an angry defendant ranted...
...Symonds' claims of stealing secrets by seducing female embassy and government employees - he says he later tried to confess to authorities but was ignored - were corroborated in a trove of copied kgb documents, some of which found their way into the 1999 book The Mitrokhin Archive: The kgbin Europe and the West. A further instalment of the documents, dealing with espionage operations outside Europe and America, is the basis for an upcoming sequel...
...much rich, strange, documentary material out there. "They don't want to see the world," he has said, "they want to suck their thumbs." After A Man in Full, it occurred to Wolfe, who had a daughter at Duke, that the lives of college students were a trove of good stuff--there is, he points out, no really great novel about campus life from the student's point of view. "The whole business of the co-ed dorm fascinated me. What does go on? Because all these children assure their parents, 'It's just the way it was when...