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...first episode revolves around two antagonists: John D. Rockefeller, who built Standard Oil into one of the most powerful monopolies in the world, and Ida Tarbell, the muckraking journalist who exposed the unscrupulous tactics by which he did so. Later the series highlights less celebrated but equally colorful characters: people like Columbus ("Dad") Joiner, the Texas wildcatter who sought money by scouring newspaper obituaries and writing mash notes to wealthy widows, and Calouste Gulbenkian, the powerful Middle Eastern oil broker who was reportedly so suspicious that he had two sets of doctors, one to check up on the other...
...actually turn out to be irrelevant to an eventual political solution. "Right now they are factors in the political landscape," he says. "But the Somalis don't like domination by a single political party. When people aren't fighting, they don't need military alliances." A former Somali journalist puts the issue in blunter terms: "The U.S. has to deal with these people to stabilize the environment in the short term. But when peace and democracy return to this country, they will be tried as war criminals. They are political bulldozers who killed thousands of people and destroyed national unity...
...Quite the contrary: she was a sculptor who, like all serious artists, wanted her work to join the general argument of modern images, uncramped by gender or race niches. "The best way to beat discrimination in art is by art," she brusquely replied to a list of questions a journalist sent her for an article on women artists. "Excellence...
...self-described "child of the '60s," Osborne graduated from Stanford and began writing about public policy as "my way to change the world." As a journalist covering California's 1978 tax revolt, however, he began to question liberal orthodoxy. "It seemed to me that I was watching a watershed event -- the end of the era of ever growing government spending that had begun with Franklin Roosevelt," he recalls. "I felt that progressives needed to take the lead in reforming taxes and making government more responsive...
...Irish writer Frank McGuinness finds a trove of snarky pub wit and schoolboy antics in SOMEONE WHO'LL WATCH OVER ME, which last week moved from London to Broadway with its deft West End cast -- Alec McCowen as a prissy English teacher, Stephen Rea as a dissolute Irish journalist and James McDaniel as a tightly wound American doctor. The roles recall the contrived ethnic jumble of old war movies. McDaniel, the most touchingly real, most underscores this falsity...