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...Night, his brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning "nonfiction novel" about the October 1967 antiwar march on the Pentagon. These were the years of Mailer at his most pyrotechnic, when he took up every kind of public intellectual battle and even ran a boisterous, quixotic and very entertaining campaign for mayor of New York City. A second Pulitzer arrived for The Executioner's Song, the spare and haunting book that came out of the execution of convicted killer Gary Gilmore. There were many other titles after that, most with moments of genius but none with the same sustained power. Nonetheless, an indispensable...
...clocks and Georgian furniture, Keating was the most cultivated Australian ever to serve as Prime Minister. The movement's chief unelected backer was a formidable young merchant banker named Malcolm Turnbull. (Full disclosure obliges me to say that Turnbull is married to my niece Lucy, herself the deputy lord mayor of Sydney.) Despite Keating's defeat in the 1996 elections, Turnbull and his fellow republicans were able to bring the republic issue to a nationwide vote...
...more than 10 years as the Governor of Arkansas, which had a Democratic legislature during that time, Mike Huckabee dominates the GOP candidates in leadership experience. Mitt Romney's roles in the public and private sector earn him second place. Rudy Giuliani uses his record as New York City mayor to inflate his leadership qualities, while Fred Thompson, like the top Democratic candidates, lacks experience. If those who possess the most leadership chops are the ones who win the race, then the Republican candidates will line up in the primaries just as I have laid them out here. Huckabee will...
...vote removing all penalties for possessing small amounts, Denver joins Alaska to become only the second place in the U.S. offering a free ride to users caught with less than an ounce. Denver's local and political culture has been amenable to such legal reorientations. Last summer, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and four of the 13-member city council told a local newspaper they had smoked pot in the past, while another six councilmen refused to answer and only three said...
...bankers and powerbrokers. Right-wing former president Arnoldo Alem?n and ex-communist guerrilla leader Henry "Modesto" Ruiz are both on the client list. His Eminence, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, the country's top religious authority, has been getting the same haircut here for 30 years. Managua's Sandinista Mayor, Nicho Marenco, comes in for a trim every month, as do the publishers of the two leading opposition dailies, and a flurry of politicians, businessmen and financial leaders...