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...stamps gave me an idea. At a time of polarized politics in America, the U.S. Postal Service should issue a pair of stamps honoring two Commerce Secretaries who died before their time and who each embodied what?s best about red- and blue-state America. I'm thinking of Malcolm Baldridge, who served under Ronald Reagan and died in a horseback riding accident in 1987, and Ron Brown, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who served under Bill Clinton and died in a plane crash while trying to promote economic development in the Balkans during the Bosnian...
...Abboud shirt. Finder, 47, uses that camouflage to slip in and out of the corporate environment, where he researches gripping thrillers set among the world of executive suites and water coolers. "Joseph Finder is doing for the business thriller what John le Carré did for the spy thriller," says Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, "moving it from the level of simple genre to something more complex and ultimately satisfying...
...tipping point yet? What author Malcolm Gladwell described as small things that make a big difference seems like an apt metaphor for the latest developments on civil liberties and the Bush administration. First was Thursday morning's USA Today story, declaring, "NSA Has Massive Database of Americans' Phone Calls." The story dominated the morning news shows and drove the day's events, with the President racing to the microphones in the Diplomatic Room of the White House before departing on a trip to Mississippi. Bush didn't get into the specifics of the USA Today story, but he did defend...
...Similarly, Mario Perez, a Mexican with his green card who is trying to become a citizen, couldn?t skip class at Malcolm X College, a community college a few blocks from Union Park. ?I have an English test. Maybe I?ll go over there later, but this I have to do,? said Perez, 62, who has been in the country for about 40 years. ?That?s what I?m doing. I?m bettering myself. I want...
...MALCOLM IN FRONT Frankie Muniz is on hiatus from acting to pursue race-car driving full time. He'll debut at a Formula BMW race this month. That's one child star who's trying to stay on track...