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...writers devote page after page, well over 100 in all, to proving Auerbach is "no genius or philanthropist" but a disloyal, chauvinistic, influence-peddling control freak who is obsessed with winning...
Losing the starting off-guard to a freak knee injury...
...touch with the plight of average Americans, he repeatedly insisted, "I care very much about the people that are hurting in this state." He noted seven times in nine appearances that the first floor of his ancestral summer home in nearby Kennebunkport, Me., had been clobbered in a freak hurricane last October. "When a storm hits the seacoast here," he said in Portsmouth, "it hits...
...Though Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, tongue in cheek, introduced Clinton at a meeting two years ago as "the only politician to be a rising star in three decades," he knew pain and adversity in childhood. His father, a heavy- equipment salesman, was killed in a freak road accident three months before Clinton -- originally christened William J. Blythe IV -- was born on Aug. 19, 1946, in the little southwestern Arkansas town of Hope. Five months later, his mother Virginia returned to nursing school in Shreveport, La., to get a degree in anesthesiology, leaving Bill with grandparents who ran a small grocery...
...entered the Body Shop, I felt a rush of nostalgia for my native New York and the candy counter at Bloomingdale's. Lined up along the green marble walls (the eco-freak's color of choice) were glycerin soaps, bath beads and little soaps shaped like fruit, some in glass candy jars and all assorted in at least eight different colors. The whole thing looked like a nice little country buffet. Just don't eat the soap...