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...were lost," says a contemporary. "But he was skeptical of the groupthink; he stayed independent of the mob." One reason some classmates didn't realize how bright he was, argues Birge, was that he was glib and "almost always funny. He would essentially manipulate the environment to make it less confrontational and avoid conflict...
Along with a set of cufflinks and a sense of duty, Prescott Bush passed along something else that is still at work today: an addiction to politics that would not subside even after leaving office. After less than two terms in the Senate, Prescott retired in 1962 for health reasons. He had suddenly begun to lose weight, and a doctor told him, "You'd be a fool to run." So Prescott complied, a decision he would regret. "Once you've had the exposure to politics that I had," he said later, "...it gets in your blood, and then when...
...band's exposure on MTV's 120 Minutes and MTV2, Brownstein is in even heavier rotation as a guitarist in William Shatner's backup band in the Priceline.com ads--can one imagine higher honors? And aside from the rain, it's hard to imagine a town less like London circa 1967 than Olympia...
These tendencies are legacies of segregation and the denial of equal educational opportunities, McWhorter says. But today such attitudes have taken on a life of their own, and their destructive effects are worsened by racial preferences, which allow "black people [to] get the very best things doing less of a job than everybody else." Because black students' grades and scores on standardized tests were the lowest of any group at Berkeley, McWhorter says, many whites and Asian Americans figured that "blacks are just plain dumb...
...America we know GARY HOUSTON as "Irate Customer" from Fargo or perhaps "Government Agent in Bar" from Hoffa. Or we don't. But in Russia the Chicago-based character actor is nothing less than the new Lee Marvin. As "American" in the recently released Brother II--Russia's biggest domestically produced box-office hit this year (and sequel to the summer 1997 hit Brother)--Houston plays a corrupt ice hockey agent/Mob boss who embodies all the evils of the capitalist Red, White and Blue. "News to me," says Houston of his megahuge status in Murmansk. "I haven't seen...