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...gave a stirring address to Congress that portrayed the Iraq campaign as nothing short of a call to greatness for a nation whose power had never before been "so necessary or so misunderstood." Though Blair's political survival hangs in the balance in his country, this one is so smitten with the British leader that Congress interrupted him with applause 31 times in a 35-minute speech. Some in the House chamber wiped away tears as Blair told them, "Destiny put you in this place in history, in this moment in time." And if it turns out that...
...wintry journey marked by "a wrong road and a soaking shower" and an icy hill that has their horses stumbling so badly they are "no more able to stand than if they had been shod on skates," he later recalls. But they talk for hours on end, mutually smitten. Back in Philadelphia, he responds to her first letter with rhapsody and rue: the northeast wind "is the gaiest wind," he writes, because it brought her promised kisses mingled with snowflakes, as "pure as your virgin innocence, white as your lovely bosom...
...sure, admiring tourists have been journeying there since Christopher Columbus, who in 1493, sailed past the 10-mile-by-5-mile gem and dubbed it Graciosa, Spanish for "graceful." (Vieques is an old Indian word for small island.) Lately, conference planners have been smitten by the place and have scheduled executive retreats at the Martineau Bay Wyndham resort...
...jokingly makes the devil-sign at her, Leila expounds on what she does love: Bluebell brand ice cream. ‘Berg’s stacks up O.K., but, “You know, I’m just really partial to Bluebell.” As yet another smitten girl approaches Matt with more than Gatsby on her mind, we decide to move—straight into the clutches of the deadly Andy...
...take anything for granted," says Albert Miniaci, 55, a vending-machine entrepreneur from Florida who is so smitten by Mongolia's exotic charms that he has taken seven trips to the country since 1996 with Nomadic Expeditions, an outfitter based in New Jersey. Miniaci has faced flash floods, watched craggy roads flip trucks like so many toys and once waited for three days in a remote desert settlement because a fuel shortage kept helicopters grounded in the capital. Dinosaur digs were his original lure to Mongolia, but now he gives significant time and money to support adult and child education...