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...Casey to speak because of his pro-life position.” As the watchdog group Media Matters points out, Hardball’s Chris Matthews has repeated that same story at least five times since 2000. CNN’s Bob Novak and NBC’s Howard Fineman—both, along with Matthews, pillars of Washington’s permanent establishment—also told the tale...
Roosevelt was firm in his convictions, but he was also a man of puzzling contradictions. An avid conservationist who added national forests and wildlife refuges, Roosevelt’s first act after his chosen successor William Howard Taft took office was to embark on a safari to shoot lions, giraffes, and other exotic creatures. In total, Roosevelt and his entourage killed 512 animals, the majority of which were stuffed and sent to the Smithsonian Institution...
...three air-force personnel. Two of the dead were women. Two male survivors were pulled from the burning wreckage and airlifted to the Kanimbla. Witnesses told abc-TV that the helicopter's engine failed 30 m above the ground. "This is really quite heartbreaking," said Prime Minister John Howard of his country's worst military accident since a 1996 helicopter collision in which 18 servicemen died. "Those young Australians were on a mission of mercy and compassion...
...what's in it for the friendly guy? Sanders points to Howard Stringer, the new chairman of Sony, as a prime example of likeability's triumphing. "He's funny, he's irreverent, he's playful," says Sanders, who has worked with Stringer. "In the end, he won the hearts of the Japanese executives at Sony. That's why they gave him the crown, much to the surprise of the world...
...husbands make films together; the wives write books. But director Ron Howard's wife CHERYL HOWARD CREW steered clear of the juicy Tinseltown yarns penned by Gigi Levangie Grazer, producer Brian Grazer's wife, whose third novel is due in June. Instead, Crew donned a burqa and made trips to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan with a CIA operative in the 1990s to research In the Face of Jinn, her tale, out last week, of an American searching for her missing sister in Central Asia. As she wrote, Crew sought input from her hubby--"Ron knows story"--who supported the often...