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When Brown's turn came, he also peeled to his shirtsleeves, but wound up resembling a somewhat ill-tempered Peter Lawford as he quoted Gandhi and Vaclav Havel. With no compromise of either his academic references or his gravely aggressive tones, he hammered away not only at the Republicans but at the whole political superstructure: "Here's the picture," he said. "The very idea of America is being destroyed because we have economic decline, the country's managers are paying themselves handsomely, and our public servants are spending half of their time cajoling the top 1% ((of income earners...
...favor for the families of the downed crew. As long as a serviceman is listed as MIA, his family continues to receive his pay and even benefits from periodic promotions. Those explanations were persuasive. But while the evidence remained inconclusive, Case 0158 would be an open wound...
Though reading the testimony didn't give me much intimation of an assassination revelation, it was a revelation of another kind. In telling his life story, of how he wound up in the Carousel Club in 1963, the Name was telling a story of an American life -- of an America -- far different from the one I'd known in my suburban hometown...
Flash's problem seemed to be self-inflicted -- a bleeding stomach wound caused by his habit of chewing up and swallowing every splintery stick he could get his teeth on. But first the vet had to rule out rat poison and cancer with a blood test ($45) and a liver scan ($140). Then there was the emergency work-up ($45), followed by a catheter ($30), urinalysis ($22), a steroid injection and lab work to check organ function ($71); anesthesia ($345); an IV attached to a leg ($110); a biopsy ($45); upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy for fiber-optic images...
...tell you how much I wound up paying for my Marilyn letter because you'll think I'm a fool. (All right, I paid $7,500 -- more than I've ever spent on a car.) And I won't tell you how I managed to get the price down even that little bit. (All right, as part of the deal, I agreed to buy a second item, for even more -- a letter from Albert Einstein describing Hitler as a lunatic -- and so got a little bit of a break on both.) But I will tell you that when novices like...