Word: careers
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Yale was the kind of school where ambition wasn't rare. These were the days when Bill Clinton was already plotting his political career. But the future Texas governor stayed out of the fray, concentrating on athletics and a social life--Texas-style pleasures--instead of grand plans for the future...
...that my career is over, but I'm happy with the way that we finished," Jellison said. "This is definitely the best Harvard volleyball team that I've played...
...comedy and melodrama, passion and grief--is to say they are every bit as beguiling as he is. And the only thing to say about his new film, All About My Mother, is that it is even better: the most mature and satisfying work in a glittering, consistently surprising career. "Pedro is a great dancer," says Marisa Paredes, one of six superb actresses in Mother, "and this is his tango...
...epitome of the type was Strobe Talbott, the current Deputy Secretary of State. Talbott (a distant relative of Bush) was one of the class of 1968's most ambitious brains--editor of the Daily News, Rhodes scholar roommate at Oxford to Bill Clinton, and before joining the Clinton Administration, career journalist for TIME magazine, specializing in defense and foreign policies. "Strobe was the kind of person George could not stand," says Robert Birge, who was a member with Bush in Skull & Bones, a Yale secret society. "He was appalled by people like Strobe. I don't know...
DIED. IAN BANNEN, 71, Oscar nominee who played an affable con man in 1998's hit Waking Ned Devine; in a car crash near Loch Ness, Scotland. In a 50-year career, Bannen appeared in Braveheart, Gandhi and the 1980 TV mini-series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; and on the London stage in The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night...