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...this wrinkled, self- absorbed baby with a cigar once he was safely beyond such a fate himself. At 44, he is now at the top not only professionally -- considered in the same breath with Steve Martin and Robin Williams -- but personally as well, uncommonly secure in a business where ego tremors routinely register 9.8 on the Richter scale. He has lived in the same house in Pacific Palisades, Calif., for 12 years, been married to the same woman for 22. He has scarcely missed a volleyball game of either daughter: Jennifer, 19, who is now studying acting in London...
...Vice Admiral James Stockdale ("a hero's hero"), and only vaguely alluded to his tough economic recovery plan. As in the initial phase of his campaign, Perot played most heavily on his status as a nonpolitician: "The people want a new political climate where the system does not attract ego-driven, power-hungry people." Whether or not he could fairly exclude himself from that category, his statement was at least in keeping with the season's rhetoric...
...Thursday, he insisted that he was getting back in because "the volunteers in all 50 states have asked me." Betraying a striking ignorance of how he is now perceived by the general public, he later said, "The people want a new political climate, where the system does not attract ego-driven, power-hungry people." Perot's brief appearance before the press gave his supporters little reason for optimism. His brusque handling of a few questions -- "Just have fun, get raises and bonuses, play gotcha. I don't care," he snapped at reporters -- revealed that the distemper that drove him from...
...time I came to college, my fragile ego was already enmeshed in my identity as a writer. But eventually, illusions of grandeur succumbed to enormous frustration. My friends' writing overwhelmed me. I spent anguished hours staring at a computer screen. Expos assignments were tortuous. Even news stories at The Crimson took me hours...
...time I came to college, my fragile ego was already enmeshed in my identity as a writer. But eventually, illusions of grandeur succumbed to enormous frustration. My friends' wiring overwhelmed me. I spend anguished hours staring at a computer screen. Expos assignments were tortuous. Even news stories at The Crimson took me hours...