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...Shama is far from the "6 foot 6 big hulk of a guy" that he claimed to be in his recent Boston talk. He is balding, well under six feet and a little goofy looking in the picture of himself in a clown suit that he keeps near the window...
Virginia Willis, 72, a widowed, retired Social Security supervisor, saw her social circle shrink over the years as old friends died, and was bored with the aimless window shopping she sometimes fell into. Since signing up with Experience Corps last year, she has found a new sense of purpose in helping the teacher and kids in a first-grade class at Guilford Elementary School in Baltimore. She's also made a couple of close friends among her teammates. "We start out talking about the children in our classroom and end up talking about our families," she says...
...Exeter Academy in 1931, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. plays a board game called Camelot with a roommate whose mother is best friends from convent school with Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. In the 1970s, Schlesinger lives in a house on Manhattan's East 64th Street. He looks out his bedroom window one day and sees his neighbor Richard M. Nixon "prowling restlessly around his garden." In a little while a party begins at the Schlesinger house. A guest--invited by a friend of his wife's--comes to the door, a man whom Schlesinger has never met: Alger Hiss. They have a polite...
...smugness has a certain hilarious pungency. He records the time in London toward the end of the war when a V-1 bomb fell close by; everyone else in his office fell to the floor, but as a co-worker's journal noted, "Arthur...boldly looked out the window." Mr. Toad was brave...
...fast it sounded like a machine gun." At various points one of them would shout that they were a thousand votes down or a thousand votes up. "We lived and died a thousand times tonight," said McKinnon. Spectators hovered outside Rove's office, looking in through a glass window. "We were all standing around like expectant fathers," says Jim Ferguson, a member of Bush's outside ad team. "We were all looking through the window hoping the baby wouldn't come out with three heads." On several occasions, Rove ordered people to stand back from his door, as though...