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In the past few years, oversize, prize-winning stories of figures as varied as Somerset Maugham and Theodore Roosevelt, Isak Dinesen and Lyndon Johnson have sold briskly and drawn critical raves. The volumes have rescued the genre from charges that it was succumbing to the as-told-to stories of...
In the end, it was a mere one-minute speech that had the greatest impact. Florida Democrat Charles Bennett, 72, a remarkably diligent legislator (he has not missed one of the 9,406 roll calls in the House since June 1951) with a reputation as a champion of defense spending...
Born in the small Pacific state of Colima, De la Madrid had a conventional middle-class upbringing by Mexican standards, with one important exception. His father, a prominent local attorney, died when De la Madrid was only two; he was shot by an irate enemy of one of his clients...
One might have expected less, or more, than we got from Kennedy and Ford. J.F.K. had spent 14 years on Capitol Hill, though he was not particularly diligent or influential there. Ford called himself "a child of the House," where he had spent 25 years, always in the minority; he...
Few freshmen needs such diligent attention their first year away. But in smaller ways, the freshmen host family program has helped hundreds of students who come from distant or radically different environments to adjust to life in Cambridge.