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...Bill Clinton’s escapades, yet were on the record defending Oliver North’s lies to Congress in the Iran-Contra affair? Indeed, the asymmetry between the Right’s panicked attitude about sex and its causal stance on violence is reflected in the basic partisan dichotomy of scandal in this country: in our lifetimes, Democratic scandals tend to be sexual, while Republican ones are often violent. It was in 1984, the year most college sophomores were born, that Gary Hart’s presidential candidacy imploded because it was discovered that...
...well spent; Breen calls the decision a "no-brainer." Tyco Healthcare's management was already strong, Breen says, and its products (more than 40 are in the pipeline for release in the next two years) are well positioned for an aging U.S. population. All the unit needed was some basic management. It's a far cry from how Kozlowski ran things. Meelia says that before Breen's arrival he had little contact with Tyco's corporate management, which didn't review the strategic plans Meelia submitted and for some reason lumped health care with plastics and adhesives into one division...
Harriet Jacobs: A Life (Basic Civitas Books; 394 pages), by Jean Fagan Yellin, is the first biography of Jacobs, and it's a harrowing case study of the cruel conundrums women faced under slavery. When Jacobs was an adolescent, her master made sexual advances toward her. She tried to discourage him by initiating an affair with a neighbor. "At fifteen," Yellin writes, "she did not have the option of choosing virginity." But the harassment persisted, and in 1835 Jacobs took more drastic action: she ran to her grandmother's house and hid in a cubbyhole. Her sanctuary...
...Botox injections. But Gillespie had to concede that Kerry had an "honorable" war record, and the Drudge insinuation of narcissism was trumped by the grizzled Vietnam veterans who surrounded Kerry in victory. I suspect, or maybe I just hope, that there may be too much at stake this year--basic questions of war and solvency--for the ancient epithets to have much sting...