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From this vantage point, Angell is able to avoid the squabbles that occupy the time of most daily sportswriters, such as the one that flared this year in New York over the early disintegration of the Mets. Some of the star players were unhappy because they felt the tight-fisted...
Burns, at 73, is in an interesting and incongruous position of power. As Federal Reserve boss, he is at the controls of monetary policy, which is the key to the pace of the nation's economic recovery, and thus has enormous influence on jobs, prices, profits-and, ultimately, politics...
Coal mining is tough, dirty, two-fisted business--the most hazardous blue-collar job in the world. The heat that comes out of Boston's radiators and the light that comes from Boston's lamps is the direct product of the sweat of people in Harlan County, Kentucky, or somewhere...
Larry Flynt, of course, is very much "one of us" but more on that later. Flynt is a burly red-haired man who looks more like a truck-driver than the publisher of the third largest men's magazine. (Last year that ordinal number meant over twenty million dollars in...
Darwin, a man of great erudition, also had eclectic tastes. He wrote children's books, two works on Dickens, a guide to the historic landmarks of London, and biographies of the cricketeer W.G. Grace and the bare-fisted pugilist John Gully, who went on to be an M.P. He is...