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It is an opinion not lost on President Clinton, who well remembers that he was elected in 1992 primarily because he promised to make life better for the average citizen. Publicly, the President quotes the belief of some eminent economists "that our economy in its fundamentals has the best prospects...
John Waters understands. For a quarter-century, the 47-year-old filmmaker has been America's pre-eminent satirist of domestic depravity. He is also an elegant comic essayist, who puckishly wrote in 1985 that killing a celebrity is "the only sure-fire route to overnight front-page fame." And...
A case in point is Kennedy's Los Angeles-based AIDS Education/Services for the Deaf, pre-eminent in its field in 1990 thanks to a three-year, $432,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. AESD barnstormed the country, giving three-day training classes to hundreds of...
To the writer Diana Trilling, who knew him well, Macdonald was the "most fiery" of the New York Intellectuals, that collection of political and literary eye gougers who hovered around the journal Partisan Review in the 1930s, '40s and '50s. As Trilling wrote in her haunting recent memoir, The Beginning...
"It makes us the pre-eminent department interms of name," Ali says. "And I have to say 'Interms on name' because a lot of things aboutHarvard's pre-eminence are linked to its name."