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...Slow Days, Fast Company that flow is generated by Babitz's fresh, distinctive sense of place: "Outside it's turned pink and the jacaranda tree is magenta, and next door the fourteen-year-old Mexican girl has finished her paper route and swung her long California-bred legs off her bike and now throws a Frisbee at her brother's head, expertly...
...years, the gap between rhetoric and reality in international amateur athletics has bred hypocrisy and, periodically, scandal. While demanding lip service to an impracticable ideal, the amateur system has left American athletes to fend for themselves in a degrading world of under-the-table payoffs and over-the-table handouts. To support themselves during the rigors of year-round training, many Olympians have accepted deals from manufacturers and fees for appearing in track and field meets, hiding their earnings from Olympic, Amateur Athletic Union and international sports federation officials. In the process, many have concealed their incomes from the Internal...
Jody soon became Carter's constant companion, crisscrossing dreary, dusty stretches of Georgia in search of voters. Familiarity bred candor. Jody began sending Carter notes almost every day suggesting what the candidate was doing wrong. Jimmy bristled at first, then began paying closer attention: Jody was often right. "Jimmy doesn't like to be hit head-on with something," says a White House insider. "Jody is a master at approaching from oblique angles...
...version of his Watergate involvement, I almost began to pity him. But then I forced myself to reflect on the massive scandal surrounding his presidency and the disgraceful nature of his actions, and I knew Immediately that I must never allow myself to tolerate the man whose conduct bred nationwide distrust and confusion. You see, I too have to carry that burden with me for the rest of my life...
Senate, Mondale was determined to play a substantive, not a ceremonial, role in the White House. Well aware of an old Washington rule-power is bred by proximity to power-he secured an office in the West Wing between Jordan's and that of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Thus positioned at the crossroads of foreign and domestic policy, he seldom visits his official quarters across the street from the White House in the Executive Office Building, which he has dubbed "Baltimore" because of its remoteness from real authority...