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...should say too that a man who is profligate with his affections is vulnerable to any accusation, and that amateur psychobabble about him when his back is up against the wall may be dirty pool, and that one hates to abet the sneaky little world of secretly taped sex chats...
WASHINGTON: Confidant, whistleblower, amateur sleuth; Linda Tripp, the veteran staffer at the center of the newest White House scandal, is all of these and Kenneth Starr's greatest ally. What else...
...Nazis' plunder of art was carried out on the express instructions of Adolf Hitler, a failed art student and amateur watercolorist before he turned to mass murder. Fond of Old Masters, Hitler dreamed of building a huge stock of cultural masterpieces in the Reich. Hermann Goring, head of the Luftwaffe and later Hitler's right-hand man, eventually assembled one of the largest private art collections in Europe. Many of those works were confiscated from Jews...
Field's fat wallet and experience managing money made it easier for Interscope to attract capital. He is also an amateur drummer who loves attending concerts and sizing up bands. "The magic in this dynamic between me and Jimmy is that all my life people saw me as a kid who inherited money," Field explains. "Jimmy was one of the first to see that I had creative ability in addition to business ability, and I helped Jimmy because I saw that he had incredible business instincts." Iovine's ease with musicians helped Interscope strike up several profitable partnerships with subsidiary...
...were just like me. Girls who grew up watching men play basketball all year and rarely got the chance to see what women could do. A new era has definitely arrived with the advent of two professional women's basketball leagues. Although I will finish my career in the amateur ranks, this has raised the visibility of the sport and increased the influence female athletes have as role models...