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Jody Powell, who as President Jimmy Carter's press secretary once poured a glass of wine over ABC News Correspondent Sam Donaldson, now has found a more poetic means of revenge...
...deference. Dan Rather's defiance of Nixon, scandalous at the time, began the real change. Now the preferred style is a harrying, rapid-fire crossexamination, not hostile but not chummy either. The masters are Ted Koppel ("But, sir, you haven't answered my question"), Bill Monroe, Sam Donaldson. They allow their subjects no easy outs or blurred distinctions. It's show time. Mixed in with these are opinionated questioners, such as George F. Will and Robert Novak, who bring decided views over from their editorial-page columning. Put together Donaldson's blunt demeanor and Will...
...holiday season has been helping to boost investors' spirits. "There has been a rally of sorts every year at this time since World War II," notes LeFevre. Optimistic observers like Eric Miller, chief investment officer for Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, are now predicting that the current upswing will push the Dow average far above 1300 and even past 1400 by the middle of the coming year. But the market's normal orneriness provides a note of warning. In 1966, the Dow hit 995. It did not close at over 1000 for nearly seven years...
Milestone fever was entirely absent from the item, which listed Donaldson's former positions in the city administration--two of which she was the first woman to fill. The symptoms of milestone fever it did not demonstrate were numerous and encouraging. It did not include a sampling of opinion--the Lord Mayor's, her colleagaes', the public's or otherwise dwell on the difference it would make to have a woman in this traditional, little-heard-of and Shakespearean-sounding position. To do that would imply that maleness had been intrinsic somehow to the job in times of yore...
...workplace. But subtle suggestions, tiny drops of water on stone, can go some ways toward modifying even the most stubbornly held and wordless assumptions; and the British may be helping matters as they dryly take for granted that, whatever it is that a Lord Mayor does Mary Donaldson...