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This old man's misanthropy -- the raging of this King Lear of cowboys -- is played out against a backdrop of handsome autumn sunsets. But Eastwood knows that his face, profiled against the gray plains sky, is one of the movies' great monuments. He also knows how to dynamite that monument...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER (1976). With Gerald Ford facing a challenge from Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination in 1976, Rockefeller served as a lightning rod for conservatives, who had never forgiven him for opposing Barry Goldwater in 1964. Rocky tried to appease the right wing by attacking welfare "cheats." To no...
Clinton continued revising his speech, adding a few lines inviting Perot's followers into the Democratic fold. Late in the afternoon, when some aides complained that the speech was too long, the candidate defended it by claiming that it had fewer words than Michael Dukakis' 1988 oration. Actually, the Massachusetts...
Greg's first love was journalism, which he practiced as a writer for the Voice of America and a reporter for the Yale Daily News. But early on, he says, "I decided that I was much better with numbers than with words." A lightning number cruncher with a stern eye...
Sexism, ranging from outright abuse to subtle debasement, is pervasive in the profession. Smith recalls a colleague who invited him to do an exam on a patient under the false guise of a consultation because "she has a body you won't believe." Another physician, whenever faced with an "emotional...