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...about the whole affair. Then he went off to face an overcrowded room full of reporters in the refurbished White House press quarters. He looked pale and frightened at first, his attempt at a wan smile quickly fading. Twice he paused in his prepared apology, gulping to regain control of his emotions...
...smoggy air often fouls the otherwise clear skies of sleepy Los Angeles. Defeated by Japan at the Battle of Tsushima Strait in 1905, Russia was forced to give up Russian America, sometimes known as Alaska. Now, under its young and aggressive new Tsar, Nicholas VII, it seems determined to regain that conquered territory and plunge the world into what could well be the first world...
...though the language of Riddley Walker is unfamiliar, the story it tells rings with unmistakable urgency. Riddley runs away from his "crowd"--his community of foragers--and becomes unwittingly drawn in to Goodparley's obsessive quest to regain the technology of explosives. Tantalized by the legendary ability of man before the flash to build "boats in the air and picters on the wind," Goodparley determines to recreate the power that created these mysteries; when he meets Riddley, he thinks he has found the first breakthrough: the ingredients of gunpowder...
Mubarak's accession to the presidency this week fulfills two of Sadat's chief wishes: to see his policies continued, and one day to leave power to a member of Egypt's "October Generation," the men in uniform who helped regain Egyptian self-esteem by their initial victories in the 1973 October War. Sadat had first met Mubarak in the Sinai town of El Arish in 1950; impressed by the young air force officer, the President remembered his name two decades later while searching for a commander for his air force...
...Franzese is the owner of the largest hotel in the Watkins Glen area, the Glen Motor Inn. He is also the Chairman of the Industrial Development Agency, which technically still owns the circuit and hopes to regain control...