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...legacy of deceit. Morrow borrows heavily from Robert Caro’s excellent biography, “Means of Ascent,” to describe the shameless way Johnson misleadingly portrayed his more conservative opponent as a lackey of big labor. Johnson won the primary after a local political boss “corrected a mistake” in the ballots for one precinct...
...cunning and powerful political boss. He’s the Contreras who politicians have to please, the man who controls the money and the clout of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. He’s the man the Los Angeles Times recently compared, however subtly, to Vito Corleone. This Contreras sounds like the villain from “On the Watefront”: the quintessential union boss...
...Good teachers know their curriculum, maintain order and enjoy the company of children. "But at the end of the day," says P. & C. boss Brownlee, "those children belong to a family." Just as nurses in pediatric wards must be constantly reassuring the relatives of the sick, she says, teachers are obliged to accommodate parents, even those lacking in tact and good manners...
...especially since many adventure travelers are women in their 40s. Women who want company but don't have family or friends who feel like rafting in Costa Rica seek out a new breed of travel agency - like Gutsy Women Travel, founded by Gail Golden, 55, wife of former TWA boss Carl Icahn. Half the women who sign on for her trips are married, but their husbands aren't interested in taking cooking classes in Italy or visiting gardens in Savannah. "He likes the fact that she is safe, traveling with an escorted group and comes back happy because...
...Libbi lead his captors closer to his ultimate boss? A senior Pakistani intelligence official says the Pakistanis are sharing details of their interrogation with the U.S. A Pakistani official says al-Libbi has already provided information that led to the arrest last week of more than 20 al-Qaeda suspects in Lahore and Bajaur, a mountainous tribal land near the Afghan border. Hours before the Libyan's arrest was made public last Wednesday, two Pakistani journalists received telephone calls from men identifying themselves as al-Qaeda. The callers asked that news of al-Libbi's arrest be broadcast, hoping...