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...little plot had backfied. I had thought I could make this handsome, not Jewish, Oxford-educated poet fall in love with me if I stayed overnight at his house. Then we would get married. I would cook for him and clean his house. (I neither knew how to cook nor how to clean, but these could not be difficult to learn...
Rostenkowski, 53, known widely as "Danny," is a member of an endangered species: a dyed-in-the-polyester Cook County pol trained by late Mayor Richard J. Daley to put party before everything. Rostenkowski learned his lesson well. He once impressed House Democrat Richard Gephardt of Missouri by following up some legislative support he had promised with a simple note: "I keep my word. Dan." Says Chicago political analyst Don Rose of Rostenkowski: "He is not an ideological politician. He is Mr. Practicality...
Viet Nam still chokes Americans. The nation will not recover from it, or learn from all of that slaughter and guilt, until it acknowledges that the men who fought the nation's first teen-age war (average age: 19.2 years) did not cook up that war themselves in a mischievous moment. That was all of America out there. "It was a collective enterprise," says Dr. Egendorf, "and we were all damaged by it. A family melodrama is still going on. Sometimes a psychologist cannot treat the individual alone; he must see the whole family together...
Concerned about the circumstances of his son's death, Trerice arranged a private autopsy. It revealed that Paul had been handcuffed shortly before his death, something that was not mentioned in the Navy's report. Trerice was further disturbed when a Ranger cook reportedly contradicted the official story that Paul had eaten breakfast the morning of his death. Though the Navy insists it is not so, Trerice began to wonder if his son had eaten anything more than bread and water the last two days of his life. Last month Trerice sued the Navy for $4.1 million over...
...Brain, Cook...