Word: john
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...columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where a rant about racist writing on The Jeffersons led to a job as a creative consultant for Norman Lear. Stein left D.C. for L.A., where he continued to write columns for publications ranging from Penthouse to Barron's, along with screenplays. John Hughes hired him when he was 40 to play a teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, asking him to speak extemporaneously on economics to a class. When Stein received applause from the crew members, he figured it was for successfully explaining the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, but they were just...
Gates presents himself as a lovable, nerdy, self-made billionaire, but consider the facts. Having bludgeoned the companies that threatened him, Gates now poses as a man whose only joy is promoting innovation and competition. If his practices aren't monopolistic, then John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould were just misunderstood capitalists. JACK MORROW Long Beach, Calif...
...JOHN MCCAIN New TIME poll has him ahead in N.H., though trouble looms in the South. Calling all vets...
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, so it's the kind of place that might like a rebel like Senator John McCain. In fact, the symbol of that rebellion still flies above the statehouse today. But the Confederate flag also stands for a tradition that is likely to help Texas Governor George W. Bush even more: resistance to change. Conservatives who like the established way of things have kept the state's senior Senator, Republican Strom Thurmond, in Washington for 45 years, making him the longest-serving member...
...John Hurt, actor