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Morris (Mickey) Sabbath is a 64-year-old former puppeteer with a prostate gland that belongs in the Urology Hall of Fame. In addition, the randy creation of Philip Roth's new comic novel (Houghton Mifflin; 451 pages; $24.95), is an Olympic-class misanthrope, an example of homo invectus so addicted to wrath that he rejects suicide on the ground that "everything he hated was here." "Roth still has the power to shock and amaze, although he's lost some of the fresh manic energy of 'Portnoy's Complaint' (1969)," notes TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "Some readers will find...
...other obstacle, notes USAir pilot Philip Garland, is a lack of role models: "Many times on a flight, I'm not just the captain, I'm the only black on the plane. " Despite the inspiration of the Tuskegee airmen, the airline industry still has a long...
Clinton's move cuts straight to the heart of the tobacco business. While the cigarette companies make some concessions to political pressure--last week, for instance, Philip Morris added the phrase UNDERAGE SALE PROHIBITED to its packages--the fact remains that they have a business motivation to replace the 2 million smokers who quit or die each year. The best way to capture new ones is to get them when they are young: of all adult smokers, 90% started smoking before the age of 20. This is why much of the tobacco industry's $6 billion worth of advertising contains...
...Administration took its biggest lumps yet at the Senate Whitewater hearings. Former Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann testified he had angrily complained to then White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum about the integrity of a search of deputy counsel Vincent Foster's office that took place shortly after Foster's suicide. Heymann said it was a "terrible mistake" and a "misuse" of the department to have kept Justice officials sitting and watching while Nussbaum searched through Foster's papers for clues to his death. The solo search, Republicans charge, may have been part of an effort to keep Whitewater documents under...
Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53, Warburg Professor of Economics, Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith and Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics Susan J. Pharr have agreed to attend, Feeney and council member Philip R. Kaufman '98 said...