" Jesse Nichols, a librarian on the Senate Finance Committee and the first black appointed to a clerical position in the Senate, recalled that "Senator Gore used to come in and out of the clear blue sky he would say, 'Jesse, bring me a Coca-Cola.

CNN: Excerpt: 'The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore'

Sometimes a big blue hand would come down out of the sky and sweep away one or more levels of the square tower, or even the whole thing.

NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

Those pictures were her one real memento of him, page after page of watercolors from a world that, even before she opened the book for the first time, was gone forever, leaf green and sky blue and damson, wiped out by a tide of cattle trucks and unmarked graves.

NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer

We had isolated snow flakes falling out of the sky on the walk to the stadium, but now the skies are blue.

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