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...tools of his success have generated considerable controversy. Bruguiere can issue search warrants and wiretaps on a mere hunch, and not all his hunches are right. In 1999 a French court rebuked him by acquitting dozens of suspects in one of his terrorist investigations. Critics say Bruguiere, who constantly puffs on a pipe and has a fondness for the media, is a dictatorial egotist. They derisively call him le sheriff. But his contributions to the war on terrorism shouldn't be dismissed because of his personality; unlike other countries in Europe, France isn't a terrorist haven. Says a former...
Lindbergh was just 25, with a mere five years of flying behind him, when in May 1927 he became the first pilot to complete a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. The audacious feat made him a national hero--the recipient of euphoric parades, a Congressional Medal of Honor and a posting as a roving ambassador of goodwill. TIME called him "the most cherished citizen since Theodore Roosevelt." He completed his annus mirabilis by meeting Anne Morrow, whom he would marry in 1929. They would seek privacy, especially after their son was notoriously kidnapped and murdered in 1932, but both...
...exercise that love by constantly cruising the Mediterranean coast of France in an 11-m cutter christened, in homage to Edouard Manet's infamous nude, the Olympia. (His first and much smaller boat he named, to show his artistic affiliations, the Manet-Zola-Wagner, a heavy cargo for a mere day sailer to carry.) He "discovered" St.-Tropez long before tourism did, and built there a big rambling house, La Hune, which was his base and which still, happily, belongs to his descendants...
...Purple Eagles struck first, a mere six minutes into the game, when freshman left winger Teresa Del Monte sent a pass to junior right winger Valerie Hall, who broke in on goal. Hall’s shot was stopped by Ruddock, but senior center Brooke Bradburn buried the rebound...
...current exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The house, named Windshield after the large amounts of glass used in its construction, has achieved more fame for its ill-fate than its revolutionary design. Completed in 1938, the house stood as a beacon of modern design for a mere week before it was significantly damaged by a hurricane. The house was rebuilt by 1939, but was consumed by a fire on New Year’s Eve in 1973, never to be rebuilt. As such, Windshield represents the Atlantis of modern domestic architecture: a fabulous creation that only exists...