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...Mike' is definitely tongue-in-cheek," Inside Edge Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Hsu '94 tells me, nothing a disclaimer that bids readers to ignore Mike's "advice." I ask Hsu to show me which segments of his magazine are tongue-in-cheek. He points to nearly every page. But the word he uses is "entertaining...
Hollywood has always been White House-struck: Michael Jackson moonwalked through the Bush Administration, and Frank Sinatra danced cheek to cheek with Nancy Reagan. So far, Clinton has resisted naming a Shirley Temple Black as an ambassador or an Arnold Schwarzenegger to a presidential commission. But he needs to prove that Roger Clinton got all the rock-star genes in the family and that he intends to govern more like Harry Truman than Oprah Winfrey on wheels. The most perceptive question pollsters ask is whether the respondent believes that the President cares about people like you. Unless Clinton is pursuing...
...compulsive gambler and has an eye disease that could make him blind; who in his late 30s took up steer roping, wind surfing, rock climbing, motocrossing, jet skiing and body building; who once called Donald Trump "twinkle toes"; who let Frank Sinatra pinch his cheek in a commercial for his casinos; who divorced his wife, never moved out and remarried her five years later; and who shot off his index finger two years ago while handling a pistol in his office...
Alexander Hamilton was back in the news last week, after a nearly 200-year absence. The founding father of American finance had his face plastered all over the cover of Tuesday's New York Post, the newspaper he founded in 1801 -- with a huge tear dripping down his cheek. The tear had been planted there by mutinous editors at the famously sleazy tabloid who refused to relinquish control to real estate mogul Abe Hirschfeld, the latest multimillionaire to attempt to take over the paper. In 20 pages of nonstop abuse, Post staffers described Hirschfeld as a "nut," a racist...
...could demonstrate that was so. Postwar Richmond was a city where African Americans still knew their place and kept to it. In 1955 Ashe was turned away from the Richmond city tennis tournament because of his color. But that merely presented an opportunity to turn the other cheek: "Drummed into me above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing...