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...also editing my film Life with Mikey, starring Michael J. Fox and populated with a lot of theater actors, and working on a play at La Jolla based on Cool Million starring Doogie Howser. It's a Horatio Alger story...but he gets dismembered...
When Zacharieas Mougrous and Alex Bafras opened the doors to the new Tommy's House of Pizza last week, they were opening the doors on a grand vision. It is a vision not unlike that of the mythical Horatio Alger, who turned rags into riches. It is a vision of success and service to the community. It is nothing less than a vision of greatness...
...believe it would be a mistake to sit backand say the government can't do anything and so weshould glamorize the Horatio Alger story," shesaid...
...COLD WAR MYSTERIES, NONE WAS AS perplexing as the espionage case against Alger Hiss. A former State Department official, he was accused in 1948 of spying for the Soviets, tried before a House committee led by Congressman Richard Nixon, and served a four-year term for perjury. Yet he has staunchly maintained his innocence, even in the face of microfilm evidence produced by former TIME editor Whittaker Chambers. Now comes word from an unlikely but authoritative source that Hiss, 87, may not have spied. After researching "a great amount of materials," General Dmitri Volkogonov, chairman of the Russian government...
...onetime Catholic seminarian, and his wife Virginia regularly attend Sunday services at Truro Episcopal Church in Fairfax, Va. Unlike the Scalias, and O'Connor and her husband, they are absent from the Washington social scene. Since he joined the court, Thomas has attended only two public events, a Horatio Alger Awards dinner and a state dinner at the White House. In May he canceled an appearance at New Jersey's Seton Hall law school after he was warned of a possible demonstration against him. Remembering her own embarrassment when she was booed during an appearance at New York University...