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He's been selling the paper since the beginning of the year and has no false illusions or pretensions about why he works. "It's a way to make some money and," he says with a crooked smile, stained teeth frighteningly revealed, "I'm trying to meet a girlfriend." He...
As O'Brien settled into the job, however, his neophyte weaknesses began to show. He leans into his guests (Tony Randall, Mary Matalin and Ed McMahon among others last week) like a high school kid on a job interview. His sidekick, Andy Richter, is a superfluous appendage. The prepared comedy...
ALEXIS TOOMER LEANS BACK, lays her Dr. Martens shoes on the table and giggles. She can do that now; she's graduating today.
Asked to explain his research to a layperson, the professor leans forward and describes his works to explain the basis of mathematical thought, the axioms from which people's understanding of mathematical theorems stem.
Even so, some people are scared to death of her. One aide says the problem comes in mixing up "formidable" with "frightening." He says, "She has all the protective, wifely instincts of, say, Nancy Reagan, but then on top of that she is very smart, and so nothing gets by...