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...factor. But as the years went by, a grudging sort of camaraderie emerged between the two; Letterman grew to appreciate Gifford's self-deprecation, which seemed to blossom in recent years - perhaps as the only natural response to Frank's fling with a flight attendant and Cody's looming descent into adolescence...
...County legislator to becoming a Congressman at age 34. He also knows from a lot of recent history that going negative can be dangerous. The easiest way for a candidate with serious character flaws to neutralize them is to have an opponent point them out. Bill Bradley began his descent when he called Al Gore a liar. And Hillary began her rise in the polls when dark forces--Ken Starr, the Congress, the vast right-wing conspiracy--aligned against...
According to AnnaLee Saxenian, an associate professor of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, about one-third of the engineers in Silicon Valley are of Indian descent, while 7% of valley high-tech firms are led by Indian ceos. Some successes are well known, such as Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Sabeer Bhatia, who founded HotMail and sold it to Microsoft for $400 million. The number of Indian American New Economy millionaires is in the thousands. Massachusetts' Gururaj Deshpande, co-founder of a number of network-technology companies, is worth between $4 billion...
...woman. A Russian mother, married to a black man, talking about her daughter's cornrows. A homophobic Italian cop. A young girl in the projects who's "the only virgin left in her building." Jones, 25, the daughter of a black father and a mother of European and Caribbean descent, uses her one-woman show, Surface Transit, to get the voices out of her head and into the world. "We all know people like this," she says. "Some of us are people like this...
When TIME asked me to write about my 84-year-old father and his descent into Alzheimer's disease, frankly I figured the article would never appear. Too much of a downer. But it did (TIME, Aug. 30, 1999), and nine months later, I'm still hearing from readers. Many have written to console me with similar stories about their parents. One reader sent me cookies. Gil Morris, of Denton, Texas, sent me a song he had recorded about his mother called Her Broken Heart. Some wrote to tell me about families torn apart by the decisions...