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...most interesting find, however, was the following speech which appears to be the draft Quayle wrote himself before his staff handed him the one he would give...
...libraries, gathering snippets about her heritage. Now, thanks to scores of websites and chat groups, she has traced her great-great-grandparents back to Mississippi, found the cemetery in Hines County where they are buried, obtained a copy of their 1874 marriage license--along with the World War I draft card of a great-grandfather--and in the process, discovered the thrill of cyberrooting. "It's kind of spooky," she says. "Whenever I come upon something, my heart starts racing...
John Pierpont Morgan is usually "depicted...as a ruthless predator who robbed America's farmers and workers to line his own pockets," writes Jean Strouse. But halfway through her first draft of Morgan: American Financier (Random House; 796 pages; $34.95), she realized that the picture she was getting from plowing through a mass of Morgan documents, many of which no previous biographer had seen, was far more complex. Starting over, she has produced a more balanced and crisply written--though at times unnecessarily detailed--portrait than her subject could ever have drawn. History, Strouse observes, is written by "the articulate...
...government offices there is confusion. Some ministers believe NATO will intervene to help; others argue that the alliance is far too divided to rescue such a small province. Milosevic is starting to turn up the pressure. He has issued a draft order for all battle-age Montenegrins, and his promises that no locals would be sent to Kosovo have been abandoned. Trees along boulevards now sprout the death notices of local soldiers killed in Kosovo. A civil war here would surely bring the dying closer to home...
...cannot draft legislation which will ensure that you can be sure," he said...