Word: bachelor
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Greenwald grew up in the sunny 1950s economy of Los Angeles, priding himself on his skills as a bodysurfer. When it came time for college, he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, planning to become a professor. By the time he completed his bachelor's degree in English, his growing interest in public affairs had spawned a new ambition to become a journalist. After taking a master's in journalism from Berkeley, Greenwald added a degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. As a reporter and later business editor for the Minneapolis...
...born, and he grew up poor in the southwest Arkansas town of Hope (pop. 10,000). But Clinton was Hope's Doogie Howser, succeeding at everything he tried, the darling of his teachers and one of the first from the area to go to college. He got his bachelor's degree at Georgetown University, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, then went on to Yale Law School, where he met his wife Hillary. By 1979, 32 years old and back in Arkansas, he was the youngest Governor in the country...
...three decades he was Hollywood's ideal bachelor, a handsome, self-assured man who retained just enough boyish shyness to melt a woman's heart. There was always a pretty actress on his arm and usually one of some consequence, like Leslie Caron, Diane Keaton, Julie Christie, Madonna. Often boulevardiers get a bit threadbare in their 50s, but Beatty, 54, kept finding the beauties. Then last summer came the shocking announcement. No, he wasn't marrying (at least not yet), but he was having a child with intelligent, glamorous Annette Bening...
...Senate testimony last week of Robert Mazur, a federal undercover agent who said prosecutors ignored "hundreds of leads" and failed to exploit 100,000 documents seized in a 1988 money- laundering crackdown on B.C.C.I.'s Florida branch. The investigation, in which five B.C.C.I. officers were arrested at a phony "bachelor party" for Mazur, led to prison sentences for the executives and a $14 million fine for the bank...
...that he contracted the virus that causes AIDS, and which forced his premature retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers, "by having unprotected sex with a woman who has the virus." And who was that woman? Magic does not know. "Before I was married," he wrote, "I truly lived the bachelor's life . . . As I traveled around N.B.A. cities, I was never at a loss for female companionship . . . After I arrived in L.A. in 1979, I did my best to accommodate as many women as I could -- most of them through unprotected...