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Mario was the studious one; he would perch himself on some milk crates in the back room and read late into the night. When he was 14 he switched from Jamaica public schools to the more demanding St. John's Prep, and began an educational love affair with St. John's that has lasted for more than 25 years, from prep school through college, law school and 17 years as an adjunct professor of law. Every morning, without fail, Cuomo slips on his heavy St. John's class ring...
...when economic change was the order of the day. The father went to work at a time when men could climb the corporate ladder on raw ability. Now nearing 40, he sees the G.I. Bill breeding a generation of credentialed newcomers to dislodge him from his modest perch. That is why he rests his hopes so crushingly on his precious sons, and why he alone has a sense of the tragedy that could follow their flights to freedom...
...year ago, when he abandoned his lucrative ($400,000 a year) perch as a syndicated columnist and commentator to take on the $75,000-a-year job of overseeing speechwriting and press relations for the White House, Buchanan was expected to give the Republican right a voice that would carry straight to the Oval Office. But more often than not he was trumped by moderates, particularly National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, who favored compromise with Congress and the Soviet Union. Buchanan's shaky start disappointed the true believers, but he professed to be unfazed. After all, he would assure friends...
...collapses. And I just don't see it." If momentum means as much to a network's success as it does to a baseball team's, then NBC is wellfixed for the prime-time pennant race. This summer viewers got steamed up over Miami Vice, which found a regular perch among the top ten shows. Moviegoers made a bimedia star of Family Ties' Michael J. Fox, whose Back to the Future and Teen Wolf were the biggest box-office winners of the past two weeks. Fox could be the first teen throb since John Travolta to commute between a sitcom...
...after day, network crews restlessly peer down from their perch in the Santa Ynez Mountains, looking for photo opportunities at the adobe ranch buildings three miles distant that serve as Ronald Reagan's Western White House. But thick swirls of morning fog and shimmering waves of afternoon heat obscure their camera view, and the subject stays half hidden in the shade...