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Kent Pickard unlocks the gate to one of his cornfields--one that abuts Airborne Express's vast shipping complex. "I'm right in the middle of it," says Pickard, 52, wheeling his old pickup through the gate and down a dirt road that ends at an Airborne fence. "From 4:30 in the morning, the airplane takeoffs are constant. Sometimes it shakes the ground under my tractor. Sometimes I think the tractor is coming apart...
...would like to be viewed as this investor from the middle of the desert, who comes and adds value to companies," he says. "I get a kick out of finding industries that have spectacular potential. I look for companies that have solid brand names and sound management but are dirt cheap." As the prince can tell you, those bargains can really...
...rearing of the compulsively clean begins at a young age. Little tykes are shuttled relentlessly from the outdoors to the sacred Inside of the House by a whirlwind of a mother that whisks every molecule of dirt off their bodies. "Take your shoes off!" sounds the battle...
Things changed once I got out of the Inside, however. I found College life isn't particularly friendly to the compulsively clean. Friends and mere acquaintances feel at liberty to fling their polluted bodies onto the pristine haven of my bed without regard for my well-being. Shoes track dirt into the dorm room and there is no reining them in. I find myself sharing cups and utensils with people I have known only for a span of months. Three years of this nerve-wracking activity and I am hanging on by a neatly-trimmed fingernail. What...
Uncovering dirt is the job that made Hersh's name. He won the Pulitzer in 1970 for exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Later he detailed the CIA campaign of domestic spying against Americans. He gained a best seller and a National Book Critics Circle Award with The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House. Now comes the book he hopes will be the capstone of his career. His publisher, Little, Brown--a subsidiary of Time Inc., the publisher of this magazine--is rolling out a sizable first printing of 350,000 copies. Hersh is bracing...