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...were legendary. In one day, Oct. 31, 1987, Chris Antley rode nine different horses to first-place finishes, the only jockey in history ever to do so. And in a span of nine years, Antley would win the Kentucky Derby not once but twice, the first time in 1991 aboard Strike the Gold, the second in 1999 aboard Charismatic. Even in defeat, he could be inspiring. Racing the Belmont in 1999, Charismatic came up lame at the end. Television cameras recorded Antley leaping off his mount to brace the ailing leg of the horse, saving the Thoroughbred from a potentially...
Gore, 52, had reportedly been so embroiled in the past five weeks of legal wrangling that he had never spoken--out loud, at least--about where his life might turn in case of defeat. Aboard Air Force Two in September, the one-time newspaper reporter mused about possibly being "a writer of some kind...
...appalled by the insensitivity Roger Rosenblatt showed in his commentary about the human need to write based on the revelation of the Russian submariner's last message to his wife [ESSAY, Nov. 6]. The situation aboard the Kursk should not be trivialized by relating it to existential musings on the subject of why people write. Lieut. Captain Dimitri Kolesnikov wrote to tell a truth we all suspected: the crew of the Kursk did not die instantly, as Russian authorities claimed. How could Rosenblatt fail to have addressed the issue that Russia does not value life any more today than...
...Back aboard the plane for the flight to Austin, Bush did something he hadn't done in a long time: he came back to talk to the reporters. He went from row to row, shaking hands. He was far more sober and serious than the candidate they usually saw on the plane. Perhaps he realized that a man who might be elected President could no longer play the fraternity cutup. Or perhaps he was just tired. But he had one joke still in him. As he made his way back to the front of the plane, he turned...
...anyone finds a spiral notebook covered with hand-scribbled lyrics about hating lots of people, composed mostly in interior rhyme, please return it promptly to EMINEM. The rapper remembers having his notebook--chock-full of material for a soon-to-be recorded album with side group D-12--aboard a Delta flight from Cincinnati, Ohio, to New Orleans. But somewhere in transit the notebook, with perhaps yet another track featuring a clever rearrangement of the words "Slim," "Shady," "I" and "Am," was lost. Eminem is offering a cash reward or a personal meeting in exchange for the notebook's safe...