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...Clinton and his soldiers have learned anything, it is that change comes in droplets, squeezed out like lifeblood. Reno came late to Washington, a third-choice candidate without a long-standing friendship with the President or his wife, without national stature, but with natural allies. She came alone, moved into an apartment furnished right down to the ironing board and the coffeepot, and set to work on an experiment in alchemy. But will it work? Will the most celebrated Cabinet member to storm the capital in years be able to turn raw personal popularity into hard political power...
...think it's wonderful. It's the lifeblood of business to have that kind of advertising," said Ultimate Bagel President Joe LaMacchia...
...cooler than King's, more lawyerly than evangelical; its bitter logic cut like a knife at the throat of complacent white America. Even in the time of Malcolm's most toxic demagoguery -- defaming liberals as white devils, civil rights heroes as Uncle Toms and Jews for sapping "the very lifeblood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel" -- his steely charisma beguiled the white media. In Harlem he was something more than a diversion: he was the prophet of the black male underclass. "It was manhood time," says Al Freeman Jr., who played Malcolm...
Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether thesearch committee will be looking for a an insidervisible in university life--a sharp contrast tothe much-criticized and recently departed BennoSchmidt--or an outsider who could infuse ademoralized Yale with new lifeblood...
Marshall Loeb, managing editor of our sister publication Fortune, where Godshall once handled the circulation job, thinks the word circulation is particularly suitable to describe the size of a magazine's readership. "Circulation is the lifeblood of a magazine and as good an indicator as you'll get of its vitality. It's also an indication of the intelligence of the circulator." His opinion of circulator Godshall: "absolutely terrific...