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...dysfunctional clans they analyze), she's a polarizing figure. To her admirers, this mother of three and grandmother of five, who has been married to the same man for 53 years, is a brave, compassionate voice in the wilderness. To her detractors, she's a melodramatic doomsayer, a crank...
...most effective Speakers rose to power by taking an obscure post within the institution and making it important. Cheney did just that with the House Republican Policy Committee, a moribund operation whose chief function when he reached it in 1980 after only one term in Congress was to crank out explanations to members of the G.O.P. position on various issues. Cheney turned it into an internal party forum, where a rising generation of G.O.P. bomb throwers led by Newt Gingrich could gain a hearing from the older leadership, who sometimes seemed to have made their peace with the idea that...
...Fall Down, Laughing: How Squiggy Caught MS and Didn't Tell Nobody, by David Lander of Laverne & Shirley. But you don't have to be ailing to get a lot of money for your book; you could just be rich. GE chairman Jack Welch is getting $7.1 million to crank out his story when he retires next year...
...trips, killing 13 men, including one of its sponsors, Horace L. Hunley, for whom it was named. It was nicknamed the "Peripatetic Coffin," a fitting name, as it was only 4 ft. wide and just over 4 ft. high, crewmen had to sit hunched single file, each operating a crank attached to the propeller. Top speed was 4 knots. The captain navigated by peering out fist-size portholes in the forward conning tower. The Hunley had air for 2 1/2 hours, though it rarely stayed down for more than 25 minutes. Says project historian Mark Ragan: "They would surface when...
...could hear investors breathe a sigh of relief last week as stocks seemed to turn the corner. But don't be fooled. The Federal Reserve could still crank up interest rates another notch to make sure inflation is hobbled, and if it does, you won't have to go to the amusement park to get on a roller coaster. Many market strategists are forecasting a choppy ride this summer. But there are ways to keep your portfolio from getting too badly bruised. Rule No. 1: learn how to play good defense...