Word: agee
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...reform-school ambience is essential, Carrasco believes, because nearly all the trainees are dropouts (average age: 17) and have been in scrapes with the law or have had trouble at home. But all sign up voluntarily, usually after repeatedly failing to get a job. They endure the regimen partly because of parental pressure, which Carrasco helps to generate by visiting his students' families at home. "We involve the parents at every turn," he explains. "We correct the notion that their children are 'our' responsibility. Hell, no. We have to work together...
...comic novelist (his 1976 The History Man may be the funniest English academic novel this side of Lucky Jim), Bradbury is also a hard-working critic, a professor of American studies at the University of East Anglia and, at 55, a man disinclined to suppress the cholers of middle age. Unsent Letters consists of 18 imaginary, therefore utterly forthright, responses to his junk mail...
Despite his age -- or, as he believes, at least partly because of it -- Octogenarian Harry Lipsig is perhaps the winningest liability lawyer in America, as well as the founder and head of the nation's largest personal- injury firm. Although he does not appear in court in all cases taken by his firm, Lipsig was delighted to be Exhibit A in the Chernow case, which brought out all his instinct for courtroom spectacle. "If you bore the jury, you have lost the case," says Lipsig, who just a few years ago helped win a client's lawsuit by leaping several...
...legends. Once in a while, with Moyers smirking approval in the background, Campbell would offer some solid, down-to-earth advice. Live mythologically, he would say. It's a means of keeping one's inner spirit attuned to the archetypes and myths that surround us even in this secular age. Well, that seemed a pretty shrewd observation...
When he died last January at age 77, President Chiang Ching-kuo, son of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was gingerly steering Taiwan toward democratic reforms and modestly improved relations with the People's Republic. The momentum slowed, however, under his successor, Lee Teng-hui, who hesitated to move boldly before becoming chairman of the ruling Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party. Last week the 13th Party Congress bestowed that title on President Lee, 65, thus giving him the mandate to push for change...