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Profit, though, is not without wry wit. Jim's mean father kept him in a box where Jim watched TV all day. And see how the boy turned out? As a grown-up he sits in front of a computer plotting against rivals. Indeed, technology can alienate--Profit is TV even the Unabomber could appreciate...
...kept thinking, 'Please! Please get some altitude!'" --Tom Johnson, a pilot with 15 years' experience, watching Jessica Dubroff's plane shortly after its fatal takeoff in Cheyenne, Wyoming...
...only one way to go: up. I've taken this elevator straight to the top." Other members of Team Tarver: Ron Smith, a construction worker whom Tarver calls his personal adviser; and his coach, Lou Harris. "There were times when we wanted to quit," says Tarver, "but he always kept that goal in my face." Then there's Antonio Jr., 8, who lives with his mom (she and Antonio never married). "I'm trying to be the best father I can," he says. "I refuse to see him go through the things...
Openly gay, under 30, British and a Margaret Thatcher conservative, Andrew Sullivan was an unconventional choice to edit the New Republic. Since taking over the neoliberal weekly in October 1991, Sullivan has kept it roiling with controversy, running such cover stories as a 1994 attack on Clinton's health-care plan by Betsy McCaughey (which many credit with turning the political tide against the plan) and a lengthy excerpt from The Bell Curve, the book by Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein, linking IQ with race. Last week, after 4 1/2 years at the helm, Sullivan resigned as editor...
...Over the Septic Tank," "I lost Everything in the Postnatal Depression," and "When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home." Bombeck suffered kidney failure in 1992 shortly after undergoing a mastectomy. Just as she raised the spirits of housewives across the U.S., Erma Bombeck kept her own spirits up throughout her illness. "She's an extraordinary person," says Aaron Priest, her literary agent. "If you didn't know her well, you wouldn't know that there's anything necessarily wrong with...