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...with Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen. Christopher reportedly did not mention the two during the meeting. "The Administration has been discreet in its reaction," saysTIME's Mark Thompson. "Plainly, negotiations between China and Washington are so fragile that if these two were doing anything untoward, the U.S. wanted to whisk them home as quickly as possible and start with a fresh slate...
...Davies doesn't take long to whisk us away to Toronto, where at Colborne College we are introduced to the young Brocky Gilmartin, who will become a professor of literature as the narrative unfolds, and Charlie Iredale, future Anglican priest. Hullah's two friends take opposite positions within the book: Brocky is clever and laughing, Charlie plodding and serious. We follow their progress into adulthood, and Dr. Hullah's exploits in war, in love, in theater...
...story that got Baker in trouble featured, in addition to the ceiling fan, acts performed with superglue, a steel-wire whisk, a metal clamp, a spreader bar, a hot curling iron and, finally, a match. Ordinarily, the story might never have drawn attention outside the voyeuristic world of Usenet sex groups. But Baker gave his fictional victim the name of a real female student in one of his classes. When university officials were alerted (by an alumnus who spotted the story on a computer in, of all places, Moscow), they gave Baker a psychological evaluation and had him escorted...
Frankel accompanied me in the elevator, before going back up to his suite. He asked what classes I was taking. My account of the courses that were coming to a harsh end in final exams seemed to whisk him back to his Harvard days...
...press of other business was about to draw the curtain over the part Admiral Frank Kelso played in the disgrace known as Tailhook. There would be no prosecutions. It was a done deal in the Senate to whisk Kelso off to a four-star retirement at full pay as if nothing untoward had happened on his watch. Then an astonishing thing occurred. Two of the most venerable forces in Washington -- the Pentagon and the Senate Armed Services Committee -- were confronted by one of the newest: seven women Senators. And for a moment the militarists were forced to regroup. Kelso...