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...Whitacre, colleagues wondered last week why he would risk his shot at the top and a well-ordered life of small-town philanthropy--he gave $2,000 a year in college scholarships to graduating Moweaqua seniors--to spy on his own company. They were still wondering as Whitacre continued to report to work last week at his second-floor office in ADM headquarters...
Stacks has been deeply involved in the news from Washington for most of his 28 years on staff. His initiation took place a lot earlier. The son of the editor of a small-town newspaper (the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Intelligencer Journal), he managed as a Yale student to get into a John F. Kennedy press conference. He was hooked. "J.F.K. was so glamorous and deft, with such marvelous, understated humor," he recalls. "I was so naive. I thought, 'Here I am with J.F.K...
Born in Oklahoma to an acting family, Howard made his stage debut at age 2 in a production of The Seven Year Itch directed by his father. Even during his days as TV's freckle-faced icon of small-town Americana, he was starting to learn the filmmaking craft. While in his teens, he won second prize in a Kodak-sponsored movie contest and briefly attended film school at the University of Southern California. Still, Hollywood was wary when Howard tried to move behind the camera. "When I set up Night Shift, most studio executives didn't want...
While the structure may be a little disorienting at times, it does add some unpredictability that medical historical texts often lack. And Langone effectively ties together past and present, discussing the consistent lower status of women in the profession while romanticizing the "coarse" general-care, small-town practitioner who knew how to be kind, understanding and available...
Meanwhile, two letters that McVeigh wrote to his hometown newspaper in upstate New York have come to light. For the most part, they resemble many missives from cranky citizens published in small-town papers. But they also contain ominous passages. "Is civil war imminent?" he wrote the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal in February 1992. Some of McVeigh's views are apparently shared by his younger sister Jennifer, 21, who wrote a letter to the paper herself last month, raging about Waco. Authorities are now questioning Jennifer, a student at Niagara County Community College and a former barmaid at the Crazy...