Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which is Hersh? Despite the pre-publication hype, most of his claims have been reported before. To many of them Hersh adds some further bit of substantiation or at least some suggestive new tidbit. If anyone still doubts that Kennedy was a one-man Roman orgy, Hersh's chapter on his most reckless adulteries will be useful reading. And although historians like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who was a member of Kennedy's inner circle, insist that it is "an exercise in political fantasy," Hersh helps elaborate stories that Chicago Mob leader Giancana helped deliver Illinois to the Democrats...
Start in a bit from the entrance. There is a stone marking the plot of a Colonel Buchwald. It is large but not enormous, and Buchwald probably served his country well. The site would blend unnoticed if his neighbor to the left, lying under a small government-issue marker, wasn't Norman Cota, the general who on D-day rallied the scattered American invasion force on Omaha Beach and pushed it past the German defenses; Robert Mitchum played him in The Longest Day. A hundred yards away, under a similarly modest headstone, rests Alonzo H. Cushing, who commanded the federal...
...with his friend director Mike Nichols, like 1990's Postcards from the Edge. At one point Michael Ovitz--then the top man at Creative Artists Agency--dropped by to ask if he was satisfied with his life. At the time, says Calley, "I felt I was living a little bit in God's waiting room. I was sleeping 18 hours a day...I like to dream. It was not a sign of advanced depression. [But] I said, 'I think I've probably been sleeping too much...
...believe in the unusual tax structure. How else to explain Starwood's unnatural premium in the market? Its shares trade at 64 times recent earnings--nearly triple the multiple of hotel and casino giant ITT. Starwood is growing faster. That helps. But the tax setup accounts for a good bit of the premium, and that's critical, because if the setup is ever struck down or found to be of little value, some of the premium would evaporate. Just what is this magical tax structure? Starwood is a Real Estate Investment Trust that owns hotels and is paired with...
...name like ITT, Sternlicht has created a personal Catch-22. If the scrutiny he's invited shows that his paired-share status is an unfair edge, lawmakers may impose limits; if it shows relatively little value, investors may lose enthusiasm. Either way, Starwood's wings melt a bit...