Word: hilton
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...reluctance to lose her pension benefits. The name of former Federal Judge Shirley Hufstedler was floated next. National Public Radio then reported that Washington lawyer Brooksley Born had been tapped. Baird and her husband first met the Clintons at an annual New Year's Renaissance Week at Hilton Head, South Carolina, some years earlier. But it wasn't until she was summoned late last year to Little Rock, initially to be vetted for the post of White House counsel, that she struck a fast rapport with the President-elect. "Clinton likes people who he likes," explains a presidential aide. Baird...
...WILL THE PRESIDENT-ELECT AND THE FIRST LADY-IN-waiting celebrate the last night of 1992? The same way they have spent every New Year's Eve since 1981, when Bill and Hillary Clinton joined fellow rising stars at Hilton Head Island for a RENAISSANCE WEEKEND of high-minded chat and a chance to bask in one another's glow. Sound like fun? This year a mob of 1,200 pols and aspiring Friends of Bill are clamoring for invitations to the exclusive camp, where 100 favored families will take part in seminars that last year ranged from "Our Fragile...
...fact, northern Michigan is a year-round vacation wonderland--the Midwest's version of Hilton Head in the summer and Vail in the winter...
...Hilton Als, in perhaps the most disturbing and challenging essay included here, contests the very existence of any book (such as this one) which defines writers by color. He contemptuously dismisses the notions of "otherness" and "difference" that govern so much thought today, calling them "very stupid words." His defiant piece suggests an exciting alternative to deeply rooted ideas about race difference and so-called "minority" issues. The inclusion of Als' essay places this collection on the cutting edge of current Black criticism...
...native of Abingdon, Illinois, and a 1946 graduate of Annapolis, Stockdale was one of the most celebrated POWs of the Vietnam War. Captured in 1965 when he parachuted from his crippled A-4 jet, he spent nearly eight years at the camp known as the Hanoi Hilton. He endured regular torture sessions, and was often kept in leg irons and solitary confinement. At one point he severely bruised and cut himself so his captors would not dare parade him in front of their propaganda cameras. Stockdale, who still limps from his wartime injuries, was awarded the Medal of Honor...