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...Mexico, but the original drivers had escaped. In his press conference last week, Ambassador Gavin quoted Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who called the drug crisis "a cancer" on both countries. Said Gavin: "We are in a war, and we cannot accept that Enrique Camarena died in vain...
Abraham Lincoln compared its power to the surging Mississippi River. Jane Austen found it so indispensable that she ironed it out when it was damp. Thackeray endured its "rather shabby pay," Coleridge tried in vain to join its staff, and Dickens endured its critical contempt. It accompanied the Light Brigade to the Valley of Death in the Crimea, and climbed with Edmund Hillary up Mount Everest. Although it proudly displays the royal coat of arms on its masthead, in an 1830 obituary it described the standard of conduct of King George IV as "little higher than that of animal indulgence...
...click at the door of his Atlantic City hotel room. With the barrel of his gun, he scoops up his Jockey shorts, pulls them on and is ready to meet the intruder. Wild shots are fired. The would-be killer escapes into the street with a chilly Mora in vain pursuit. On his way back to Miss Moon, he meets a drunk who gives him some sporting advice: "You should a bet your underwear. You never know when your luck'll change...
...first man to undergo a heart transplant in New England dies after his Harvard doctors tried in vain to find him a third heart...
...Columbus had not discovered the new route to the Indies, said the courtier, someone else would inevitably have done so. Columbus asked for an egg and then challenged all the guests to make it stand on end. They passed the egg from hand to hand, some trying in vain to make it stand, some arguing that it could not be done. When the egg reached Columbus, he tapped one end on the table, pressed it slightly flat, and so made it stand. Very easy, once the problem has been solved...