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...taken to the rigors of a book tour. In the past two weeks she has submitted to interviews with all the usual suspects--Barbara Walters, Tom Brokaw, Charlie Rose and even the profane and dangerous Don Imus, who awarded Graham's just published memoir "three-boner" status, the highest rank in Imusland. After that phrase was translated for her, she was still game, for, as her story shows, the tall girl who had to struggle "not to be lonely" at Vassar has always been drawn to men with an edge--her dazzling but erratic husband Phil Graham; her legendary editor...
Harvard only offers tenure to Faculty members at the rank of full professor, and most new tenured professors come from other universities where they have already achieved a reputation for scholarship and achievement...
...unable to write anything more about Ron Herman than his name, age, rank and city of residence. Ron died in a war that Israel has never desired but knows that it must fight. To use a Hebrew expression, ain brera--there is no choice. Israel wants peace in Lebanon, but there is no peace being offered...
...less than self-effacing subject of Trump:The Art of the Deal to the tune of some $100 million. Trump Hotels stock dropped 30% over the following weeks. More bad news rolled in when a reported $600 million deal to sell half of the Castle to the London-based Rank Organization and transform it into a Hard Rock casino crapped out after a long negotiation...
...team--a competent, bland bunch of centrists--don't want to stake the success of the second term on perilous negotiations with Congress. The lesson of the still unfolding Gingrich scandal, White House aides say, is how much control members of the G.O.P. leadership still exert over the rank and file. In an intensely partisan atmosphere, collecting votes from G.O.P. moderates is going to be tough for Clinton. So he is choosing to forge ahead with the strategy that worked so well for him last year. Its essence: avoid grand legislative schemes and bypass Congress altogether in favor...