The ringing of the telephone awakened Douglas MacArthur just after 3:30 a.m. in his air-conditioned six-room penthouse atop the Manila Hotel.
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Gaddafi, Lies and Video Tape: Libya and the Rumor Mill
Truth, as they say, is the first casualty of war.
Science: What Adds Up to a Zero
The quick-zooming, vulnerable Jap Zero* fighter is a triumph for the world's greatest adapters. How the underestimated little single-motored plane could get away with such power and maneuverability was a mystery for several weeks after Pearl Harbor
Indian Fighter
THE ADMINISTRATION Indian Fighter In his office in the Department of the Interior, stoop-shouldered, intense little John Collier shuffled through a neat stack of papers, stopped occasionally to stare at a corncob pipe in an empty water glass on his desk.
BRITAIN: The Man Who Will Be King
If Charles Philip Arthur George Mount-batten-Windsor did not exist, who could invent him?
Standing Up to Iran: Gulf Alliance Flexes Its Muscles
Pilots winging over raging Libyan battlefields in Mirage and F-16 fighter jets. A convoy of troops and tanks rumbling to the aid of an embattled partner
Uruguay headed for presidential runoff next month
A former guerrilla fighter jailed for 14 years and an ex-president were headed for a runoff next month for the presidency of Uruguay, after neither was expected to capture more than 50 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election. Mujica had led in two polls last week, but both showed him falling short of the 50-percent-plus-one vote he needed to win outright.
Make Drew Carey give away $1 million
It’s a good thing he didn’t go with “@andrew.” Drew Olanoff, cancer-fighter and blogger, is auctioning off his enviable Twitter username “@drew” to benefit the LiveStrong foundation. Its value has already been raised to $1 million, thanks to that other Drew — last name Carey.
Senior U.S. official holds talks in Cuba
A senior American diplomat had high-level talks with the Cuban government in Havana, the State Department said Tuesday.
Mayweather returns with unanimous win
Floyd Mayweather Jr made a triumphant return to the ring with a unanimous 12-round points decision over Mexico’s Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas.