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Kevin Phillips, a maverick Republican analyst, breaks it down this way. Forbes: "He has got a message which is, 'If you've got money, be happy.' That works nicely for the upper middle class. It says, 'Don't take my stock-market profits; don't take my golf bag away.'" Dole supporters? "The old Republican solid-citizens' club. They don't mind that Dole doesn't have new ideas, because they don't have new ideas either. They have old verities." And Buchanan? "He represents the not-happy-with-the-way-things-have-panned-out, blue-collar part of this...
...wisecracking in his rapid-fire Bronx rasp as 30 ninth-grade advanced physical-science students went over results of field research. DuPont principal Beverly Keepers remembers walking in one time on Wigand, who holds a Ph.D. in endocrinology and biochemistry, to find him standing on a table juggling golf balls and keeping up a running patter on the properties of matter in motion. Says student Irina Rasputnis: "He's, like, the best teacher I've had this year...
...surveyed 461 senior female corporate officials, confirmed that no one sleeps her way to the top; you get there by not sleeping. Several said they get up at 4 a.m., and Brenda Edgerton, a vice president at Campbell Soup, said, "You get tired, awfully tired." Others advised taking up golf, reading the sports pages and getting a personality transplant. Says one: "Don't be attractive. Don't be too smart. Don't be assertive. Pretend you're not a woman. Don't be single. Don't be a mom. Don't be a divorcee...
...further shook Galatis' faith. He began to see problems almost everywhere he looked and proposed the creation of a global-issues task force to find out whether Millstone was safe enough to go back online. His bosses agreed. But when the head of the task force left for a golf vacation a few weeks before the plant was scheduled to start up, Galatis says, he knew it wasn't a serious effort. So he made a call to Ernest Hadley, the lawyer who had defended whistle blower Blanch against Northeast two years before...
...Little Pill so intriguing. Rebellion--against society, against one's past--is, after all, the essence of rock. When, on Right Through You, she sings, "You took me for a joke/ You took me for a child/ You took a long hard look at my ass/ And then played golf for a while," it's as startling as Chelsea Clinton with a Mohawk. Morissette's anguished, sometimes screechy voice is the sound of postadolescent independence. She's in the driver's seat...