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...course, as the author proceeds to interview the good people of Switzerland, Bhutan, Qatar, Iceland, Moldova, Thailand, Great Britain, India and the U.S., he begins to acknowledge what he and all of us were aware of from the start: there is no single road to happiness. Heavy drinking, for instance, seems a benign diversion in Iceland but has ground Moldova to a depressed halt. The Swiss consistently say they are happy, but Weiner finds the country well run and well behaved to the point that two dogs he observes in a park one afternoon are "not on leashes...
...little Roberto Benigni in the back seat. My dad’s brow had grown increasingly furrowed as his high hopes for finding Iacurso gradually plummeted—our quest seemed dead, having found its final resting place at this seemingly private cemetery just off the arid dirt road...
...Revitalized by our freakish discovery, we climed back in the car and followed my dad’s inner compass down the hill where the road emptied into a village. We bounced slowly over the cobblestones of the street, beginning to get the feeling that cars weren’t big in town. Three older Italian men in suspenders, who were tanned the color of leather from the boiling Calabrian sun, sat playing chess under the awning of a caffé while sipping espresso and motioning with their hands. Every one of them was the spitting image of my grandfather...
...years earlier. It was snowy in New Hampshire, and Bill Clinton's promising campaign for the presidency appeared on the verge of collapse. A checkout-stand weekly, the Star, was reporting that a woman named Gennifer Flowers was talking about her affair with Bill Clinton. There was no road map for surviving something like that, but the Clintons reacted boldly. They sent a young adviser named Mandy Grunwald to appear on Nightline, which was then at the peak of its influence. Host Ted Koppel was known as a master interrogator - but as soon as he opened the interview, Grunwald sprang...
...other soldiers say a similar shooting on Jan. 24 was handled differently. In that incident, an Iraqi civilian who stopped his van in front of the embassy after driving the wrong way up the road and, despite warnings, got out of the vehicle and was killed. "We don't know what happened to the wife of that man who was in the car," Ben says. Another member of his unit adds: "She certainly wasn't brought to Australia...