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There is an awards ceremony to celebrate people who had done extraordinary things in government. Every year the Sammies - as Max called them, in honor of his original patron - attracted a few more

Among fly fisherman in the Pacific Northwest, Liam Wood was a wunderkind. He started casting at age nine and was soon tying his own flies. Still in school, he got a part-time job at a sporting-goods

One man's meat is another man's poison (proverb) Back here in England there was only one occasion in my life when I put myself on a really strict diet for any length of time. And I can tell you from

My family's story, or at least one chapter of it, began in the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina. My great-great-great-grandfather, Angus Taylor, was white. He owned my

It is hard to stay indoors all the time, especially if the weather's nice. But there are still rules. In the Czech Republic, police in one town reportedly found 75 people violating rules by not

Dealing with unsavory characters was not new to Trump. He bragged that his projects always came in on time and under budget (Trump's public budget pronouncements were inflated so it was easy to meet

And right away we have a problem. An accident with nuclear weapons is at the top of his list, and it is difficult to discuss that topic with someone who doesn't have security clearance. But the Trump

Before Leary, there was Pepsi. In 1963, Alan Pottasch, a newly hired advertising executive at the Pepsi Cola Company, was sitting in his office, pencil in hand, desperately brainstorming ideas for a

The prospect of a pandemic might also just be too disturbing to consciously consider. The same disbelief existed in 1918. From fancy dress balls in the Johannesburg City Hall in Spanish costume

The process of choosing the medal winners began months before they were ever announced. President Obama would give us a list of people he wanted to consider. We would then check the long list of medal

in Las Vegas, someone is still putting tiny hats on pigeons. Bird lovers are worried. A rescue group has been holding stakeouts. The group said they nabbed a bird in a red hat earlier this week. They

Bare breasts brought Mitzi Briggs to Las Vegas. One of her grown sons wanted to invest in the Folies Bergere at the Tropicana, one of the many topless shows the Vegas casinos use to lure patrons and

One thought stuck in Ali's head: "Poverty is not a family value." He worked as a field organizer in Obama's campaign. "The biggest disappointment was that it was a little bit of a cliche: Harvard

From 1976 to 1980. People's income more than quadrupled, with the largest paid audience of any American magazine. By 1991. it was the most profitable magazine in the world. And thus the most valuable.

Race Against Time "He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence." - William Blake For years, scientists have requested detailed operational blueprints - country by country down to neighborhood by

Kind hearts are more than coronets (Tennyson, poem) The most extraordinary coincidence which helps make this program so leaden is that only a few weeks ago I was recited this proverb in Creole in

When my dad graduated from medical school in 1947, he joined DC's Freedmen's Hospital for a one-year residency. During that year his mother, only thirty-eight years old, died in Freedmen's from

Hunters in the Czech Republic were following a deer when something went wrong. One of their dogs startled it. The deer ran toward them and one of its antlers caught the strap of a hunter's rifle. It

Protecting American jobs by preventing foreigners from taking them was a major theme throughout the Trump campaign. Soon after Trump won the Republican nomination, questions began to emerge about

Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind Now there's efficiency for you! Let me tell you a story. In the 1920s a professor at Oxford and a professor in Beijing communicated with each other by mail for many years.