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...excerpt from the book by Mary Schiavo [BUSINESS, March 31], former Inspector General of the Department of Transportation, was the most disturbing article I have ever read in your magazine. Schiavo's story includes elements of negligence, conspiracy, profiteering and disregard for human life. I fly at least two times a week. After traveling within the U.S. and experiencing the flying-Greyhound level of quality and service there, I am relieved that I do most of my traveling on still regulated European airlines. I would rather pay more in order to avoid political profit issues and have a higher chance...
TIME first wrote about Marshall Applewhite and his group in 1975. Four years later the magazine interviewed Paul Groll, a follower of Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (then known as Bo and Peep), for a story in the Aug. 27, 1979, issue on their secret camp. An excerpt...
...comes to the tabloids. One such publication blew the lid off his high-powered job as Clinton's chief political strategist when it published photos of him having strategic sessions with a woman who was clearly not his wife--or another consultant. And now a tabloid has published excerpts from his new book, Behind the Oval Office, thus helping wipe out his chances of having a magazine pay to excerpt it. Morris opens the book with an apology to his wife, President Clinton and Al Gore (in that order) and then proceeds to say how important he was to Clinton...
...Lehrer excerpt...
While some of his stories do have a definite narrative line, others are complete nonsense. The majority of his work, as in the following excerpt from "The Object Lesson," is a combination of the two: "At twilight, however, no message had come from the asylum, so the others retired to the kiosk, only to discover the cakes iced a peculiar shade of green...