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...held responsible for the failure to recognize the terrorist threat and take steps to counter it. But it was during the eight years of Clinton's presidency that the threat grew and metastasized into the cancer that we live with today. No amount of spin will ever change that. DOUG ISRAEL New York City...
...broadcast TV have faded. Recently, most of TV's acclaimed, successful new dramas have debuted on cable (The Shield, Six Feet Under), while the networks' new success stories--The Bachelor, American Idol, Dog Eat Dog--are reality shows that might once have gone to cable. Says usa president Doug Herzog: "[Cable is] not the sorry sister or the B team. We can create first-rate programming...
PHILANTHROPY Private purchases of wilderness areas received at least a temporary boost with the surging stock markets of the 1990s and the billionaires they created. One of the most spectacular deals was the 750,000-acre acquisition of temperate rain forest in southern Chile by Doug Tompkins, who has headed the North Face and Esprit clothing companies. Tompkins spent some $15 million to acquire Pumalin Park, which stretches from the Chilean coast to Argentina. He is now buying land on the coast of Patagonia in southern Argentina to establish a reserve there. Other big private purchasers include Alan Weeden...
...dads' management styles can appear testosterone driven. Building inspector Larry Picarello recalls moms in the neighborhood "freaking out" when they came over and found his two boys, Forest, 10, and Luke, 8, climbing ladders and scaffolding on the site where he was building a new house in Pomona, N.Y. Doug Ingram, a graphic artist in Decatur, Ga., whose wife Karen is an attorney, potty trained his son Nathan, 4, by acting like "a drill sergeant," he says. "We had potty-training boot camp. Once I sensed Nathan was ready, I enforced a 48-hour media blackout: no video games...
Here's another chestnut: one Doug Woodward wants to know if you are interested in an "honest family oriented home-based business." Who wouldn't be? "These things are described as turnkey operations," says Grant. "All you need to do is watch the profits roll in." In some cases, a come-on like this might be followed by a sophisticated scam. For instance, you're told you will be doing medical billing for doctors. "You're enticed to pay for equipment and training," Grant explains, "all on the premise that there are doctors who want you to do this--which...