("Einstein's personality, for no clear reasons, triggers outbursts of a kind of mass hysteria," the German consul reported to Berlin as the great man made one of his rock-star visits to New York).
As a setting for an espionage story, it belongs not to an airport thriller but to a Graham Greene tale, one in which a decent man makes one apparently sensible choice and finds himself in a grim labyrinth.
A rambling and senseless tale, in which a man makes one incredible mistake after another, until his girlfriend is dead, has trumped the irrefutable fact of the bullet-riddled body of a woman who died as she cowered behind a door she had locked.
That is when Manning made one of his worst throws of the season, practically giving Miami the victory.
Before he left Quantico Manning made one final attempt to persuade the brig commander, Chief Warrant Officer Barnes, that he was perfectly well and was no danger to himself.
Women still make 78 cents on the dollar of what men make; one in four women are still victims of assault at the hands of intimate partners; women's representation in government has stalled and in business management is moving backwards.
Testimonials from con-men make one thing clear: Craig Huey cannot be trusted.
Feherty, her fiercest and proudest TV defender, said after one man made birdie: "Score one for the guys.
While Obama's AMA ended up being a bit bland, the experiences and knowledge shared by the vacuum repair man made it one of the most popular and memorable AMAs ever hosted.
For a moment, it was as if I was floating free, man and nature made one.
Allergic to cliché, he made one-man war on conventions.
