Word: webers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gates visited one Senate office after another Monday trying to lather on a little of his personal charm. But even his escort, Vin Weber, a former Congressman who's now a full-time Washington fixer, couldn't smooth Gates' prickly edges. "It was like fingernails on a blackboard," said a participant in one of the meetings. "You'd think with all that money he's paying to his advisers they'd tell him how to behave in front of a U.S. Senator...
...summer employment, a 'c' on a core paper, and a Social Studies essay on Weber. Please help. --The editorial board
...Terri Weber's last conversation with her son Pace took place just as his dream of becoming an Air Force pilot was taking off. But she heard something besides excitement in her son's voice. "Our planes are having a lot of mechanical problems," Pace told his mom from his Air Force Academy dorm last June, four days before he was due home on his summer break. His plane's engine had unexpectedly conked out in mid-flight, forcing the instructor to grab the controls and make an emergency landing. "Sometimes it's scary," Pace said over the phone. "When...
...this environment that 20-year-old Pace Weber, a senior cadet, called his mother last summer and confessed his apprehension about the plane. "Since Pace was a little boy, he focused on airplanes and astronauts," Terri Weber says. "Getting into the Air Force Academy was something he wanted since junior high." Pace, who had spent 17 hours in the T-3, was flying last June 25 with his instructor, Captain Glen Comeaux, 31, when their T-3 sputtered during a turn at about 500 ft. It quickly entered a spin and exploded in a fireball just after hitting the ground...
...huge stake in world order, to be seen as resorting to a little terror of its own" [VIEWPOINT, Nov. 24]. But that is a lame excuse. The only "unintended consequences" of assassinating Saddam would probably be higher morale all around and a newfound respect for the U.S. CAROL BANKS WEBER Honolulu...