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...Cool J), the eldest Slocumb and expert mechanic, is given the tedious responsibility of arranging the funeral. He voices his obvious frustration with his role as he tells his wife Lucille, played by Vivica A. Fox (Idle Hands, Independence Day), “When I die, don’t tell anyone. Just bury me in the backyard, and tell them I left you!” In Kingdom Come, such funny one-liners are often followed by even more amusing scenes. In one particularly memorable moment, Aunt Marguerite and her son Royce are traveling in a beat-up Volkswagen...
...heart of every great criminal enterprise, prosecutors will tell you, is an insider willing to sing. In Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia, potential informers were terrorized into silence by some of the most expert hit men in Europe. But with the ex-president behind bars, one man has emerged as stool pigeon No. 1. Mihalj Kertes, an unctuous 53-year-old of Hungarian descent, was head of the federal customs bureau in Belgrade - an unremarkable post in a normal country, but one that in Serbia placed him at the heart of an illegal network that extended to Milosevic, his inner circle...
Instead of asking just one expert to write an essay about the problem we face, Charles came up with the idea of asking 10 influential people to collaborate on a letter to President Bush urging him to develop a plan to combat global warming. Noted conservationists Edward O. Wilson and Jane Goodall signed, but so did leaders from several other fields, including Walter Cronkite, John Glenn, financier George Soros and Craig Venter, who helped map the human genome. And you may not know that Harrison Ford, when he's not busy on movie sets, is an ardent environmentalist...
...volumes of fact and reams of endlessly incoming reporting was legendary. As deadlines loomed, he deftly recast stories with fresh information, whittling them to fit the constraints of the printed page with nary a loss of substance and ever increasing levels of precision. The final product always appeared effortlessly expert, unassailably reasoned, as burnished as literature. One of the most colorful characters to walk our halls, George paced the corridors in stocking feet, opining loudly (and not always politely) on the ingredients of his stories even as he engineered the facts into narrative. The halls still echo too with...
...growing number are folks like me who pursued another career before deciding to become a doctor. My classmates are as old as 46 and include a former actress, a bond trader, an engineer, a lawyer, the manager of an auto-parts store, a single mom and a tax expert for the U.S. Treasury. Stanford's med school welcomed us because it--along with Northwestern, Yale and the University of California, San Francisco, among others--believes real-world experience helps make better doctors...