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...last June and fell in love with tall, golden-brown, bashful, 20-ish resort hotel employee Jonathan Plummer. They now live together, happily ever after, in McMillan's big house in Danville, California. "I don't anticipate us being together for the rest of my life," says the reflexively blunt author, "but right now it works and it's good for him and it works for me and I don't care what anybody thinks...Men have done this bleep for years. Nobody ever says anything about them and they marry chicks young enough to be their daughters...
...strong--or those seen as strong. Incapable of replicating Rabin's exceptional military credentials, Peres should realize that he can derive the same strength from the democratic character of the nation he leads, and that while retaliation is surely justified, in Israel especially nothing good can come from its blunt application. Because, as Rabin said, "real peace here will come only when the Arabs move" from their grudging acceptance of "the fact of our existence" to an appreciation of Israel's "right to exist. Our power can guarantee us as fact probably forever, but who wants to live like that...
...second term, the Clinton campaign must get women to the polls. And the key to doing that may be Ellen Malcolm. "EMILY's List has become the entrepreneurial life-force of the Democratic Party," says the blunt, sometimes blustery Malcolm, 49. Once a staff member in Jimmy Carter's White House, she founded EMILY--short for "Early Money Is Like Yeast (it makes the dough rise)"--in 1985 because she was disgusted by how few women were getting elected. Her idea was simple: recruit, train and endorse pro-choice Democratic women candidates, then get women around the country to give...
...blunt and remarkably plain language, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared that the University of Texas law school could not use different admission standards for minority students than it does for white applicants. The court's decision was a frontal assault on the current law of the land--embodied in the Supreme Court's 1978 Bakke decision--which prohibits quotas but allows schools to consider race as a factor in college applications...
...snags that lay in store. One was his hiring of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid scriptwriter William Goldman, who put emphasis on off-color newsroom humor. The move caused an uproar: "The Post nearly backed out of the project then, and [Executive Editor Benjamin C.] Bradlee was blunt with Redford. 'Just remember, pal,' he said, 'that you go off and ride a horse or jump in the sack with some good-looking woman in your next film--but I am forever an asshole.' Redford was impressed: 'I've met few people who were as conscious of their position...