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...remember getting into the cab, giving the driver my address, throwing up all over myself as the cab left the Square, and the driver telling me that there would be a cleaning charge. I woke up on the couch in my basement with my wallet empty, and naked from the waist down," recounts one proud Exonian who asks for anonymity...
...woke up at 5:00 a.m. today and stood outside the Swatch store," said Jeff Bancroft, president of the club. "I purchased a vintage watch and three special packages...
Bill Clinton felt the weight of the moment. He went to bed at 10 the night before, but woke at 3 a.m. to roam the White House corridors as so many of his predecessors had done -- Johnson, Nixon, Bush. They had paced away the dark hours contemplating war, the enduring curse of Middle East policymaking. Clinton read the Book of Joshua, hearing in his mind the trumpet blasts that rent the walls of Jericho, wanting to be sure to make the point in the ceremony that this time the trumpets "herald not the destruction of that city...
...while the investigation into his misdeeds proceeded, Gardini apparently decided not to endure a similar imprisonment. "He was a fighter and he had tremendous pride," says one of his friends, author and columnist Enzo Biagi. "Most of all he valued his freedom." On the morning of July 23 Gardini woke at 7 a.m., took a shower and scanned the newspaper headlines. One read: GAROFANO ACCUSES GARDINI. Next to the bed where he killed himself, he left a one-word note to his family. It said, Grazie...
...raid sirens in Baghdad woke residents early Sunday morning as a flight of 23 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from two U.S. warships converged in an attack on the headquarters of the Iraqi Intelligence Service. The raid was in response to an attempt in April to assassinate former President George Bush in Kuwait. President Bill Clinton said he approved the retaliation after receiving "compelling evidence" that Iraq had been responsible for planning the foiled assassination attempt...