Sunday, May 27, 2012
The Party Animals at the Secret Circus - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - THE Secret Circus, as the traveling Secret Service extravaganza is known, had come to town. And the pack of macho Secret Service agents were hitting the clubs, drinking and hanging out with comely young women in alluring outfits. That was half a century ago in Fort Worth at the Press Club and a joint called the Cellar, where the waitresses wore only underwear. The carousing started after midnight on Nov. 22, 1963, the day the agents were charged with keeping President Kennedy and Jackie safe in Dallas. Boys will be boys. And no one doubts that being an agent is a tough job.
Meggie Zahneis: Chipper Jones reflects on career, offers advice to kids | MLB.com - Chipper Jones says his baseball idols growing up were Cal Ripken Jr. and Mickey Mantle. "I came up as a shortstop, so I wanted to emulate who I thought was the best shortstop in the game. And Cal Ripken was it. My dad always brought me up switch-hitting in the shadow of Mickey Mantle, so those are the two guys that I looked up to," Jones said. But now, Jones is the one baseball stars of tomorrow -- and today -- look up to.
Naked man shot dead by police as he chewed victim's face off by side of freeway | Mail Online - Images show the legs of two men lying beneath a freeway underpass in Miami when a police car arrives on the scene.
Does Facebook's IPO Prove That Zuckerberg Isn't Up to the Job? - The Daily Beast - The Facebook CEO botched his company's IPO badly. Newsweek's Dan Lyons on the business challenges ahead—and why the kid genius may not be up for the task.
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