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...says Brooks Thomas, president of Harper & Row. "We think it will be an extremely important book. There are a lot of people out there who are extremely curious about David Stockman. It's going to be very candid because he is very candid...
...Controversial Death The armed forces of the Philippines welcome the candid reporting in Anthony Spaeth's "Under the Gun" [May 9]. However, we are troubled by Mr. Spaeth's unfair use of the memory of the late Lieut. Colonel Dennis Villaneuva, a fine gentleman-officer. The article quips that Villaneuva's death is a "mystery worth pursuing," and asks, "Was Dennis Villaneuva a casualty of his employer's shoddiness?" Zeroing in on the facts, the cause of death was a heart attack secondary to massive organ malfunction due to severe loss of blood and/or bodily fluids. He died after...
Villaraigosa is candid about the mistakes he has made. "My whole life has been one of falling down and getting up again," he says. Born Antonio Villar (he added his wife's surname Raigosa when he married), he grew up watching his father beat his mother and then took his own anger onto the streets, getting into fights. He was kicked out of one school, dropped out of another, and probably would never have graduated if not for Herman Katz, a teacher at Roosevelt High, who plucked him from a remedial English class and propelled him on to graduate from...
...Almost from the first day, however, the gray facade melted away. As I followed them to their classes, team practices, year-end banquets, and sessions at the rifle range, I began to see that our three cadets-indeed, nearly every cadet I spoke with-were incredibly self-aware and candid, each with a vastly different story about their path to West Point, and different reasons for why they decided to stay the course, even as it led to combat...
...Bush won the election. The big reality announcement, though, was for the Martha Stewart edition of The Apprentice -no clips, but Martha showed up to give a stilted speech, in a beige pantsuit that showed no hint of an ankle bracelet. The show, we said, will "provide a candid look at my business practices," which I thought was what the trial...