Across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys Targaryen- reunited with her three fast-maturing dragons- attempts to raise an army to sail with her from Essos, in hopes of eventually claiming the Iron Throne.
The war, however, dragged on inconclusively past the end of Truman's presidency, eventually claiming the lives of more than 33,000 Americans and leaving a residual bitterness at home.
When Edward St Aubyn failed to win the Man Booker Prize in 2006, there was much surprise from his many literary supporters, although the writer said nothing before eventually claiming a sense of relief.
The president did engage personally on health care earlier in the year, courting groups of lawmakers in the Oval Office and making rounds of calls, eventually claiming partial credit when a version of the legislation passed the House.
The chain of events eventually claiming Arturo Beltrán-Leyva, 48, the self-styled "boss of bosses" of Mexico's underworld, who was killed in a shootout by Mexican marines with DEA support in December 2009.
He bought three more newspapers there, eventually claiming a third of daily newspaper readers in the U.K. Unsatisfied, he bounded across the Atlantic to acquire media holdings in the U.S., including the New York Post, New York magazine, TV Guide, and Harper Collins.
