Word: boyness
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...Suharto's story does make for grand opera: a village boy who grows up into an army general, then acquires absolute power in the wake of a mysterious communist coup and military countercoup. Historians say those tumultuous days in the fall of 1965 sparked half a million murders, and that Suharto and his soldiers were responsible. We students did not know about the killings at the time. If we heard anything bad, we refused to believe it. And if we believed it, we thought it justified. We chose what we thought was freedom against communism. Eventually, many of us changed...
...many of the big-name comics she tried to hire for the Main Room turned her down, and the ones who did work there weren't doing much business. "Mitzi was just crestfallen," says Argus Hamilton, the young comic from Oklahoma who was her errand boy and confidant at the time. "She had built that room for Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles, Shecky Greene, Bob Newhart - all those guys, her ex-husband's generation, who were ruling the roost in Vegas at the time. They refused to play the Main Room because they thought it would hurt their Las Vegas draw...
...Obama declared. His South Carolina victory will be topped by an endorsement by Caroline Kennedy, in a Sunday New York Times op-ed headlined: "A President Like My Father." The move will serve as a powerful, symbolic counter to the most visible surrogate in this race, Bill Clinton - the boy whose own political awakening famously came when he shook JFK's hand as a 16-year-old as part of an American Legion Boy's Nation visit to the nation's capital...
...more than an actress; she was an icon. As Emily Hartley, the wife of Bob Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show, the throaty Brooklynite upped the ante for sitcom spouses. Though Pleshette never became a blockbuster star, she often outshone weaker material in film (Jerry Lewis' 1958 Geisha Boy) and onstage (she met future husband Tom Poston in 1959's Golden Fleecing). Pleshette gained millions of fans on TV shows ranging from Dr. Kildare in the '60s to the more recent Will & Grace, where she had guest appearances. She said being a megastar was overrated: "I'm an actress; that...
...Rana, the confession of the boy bomber meshes well with the modus operandi of Mehsud's loose coalition. "Mehsud is not only organizing in the tribal areas," says Rana. "He is trying to unify all of the insurgent movements, even from Karachi and Baluchistan. These groups will have mutual understanding on one issue, and they will work together to achieve their common goals...