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Calmly walking his audience through the intricacies of the case, Boies introduced Americans to a previously undiscovered species of superstar lawyer. He showed none of the self-regarding intellectual pretension of an Alan Dershowitz or the preening, macho strut of a Johnnie Cochran. Unlike his Democratic colleague Warren Christopher, he did not whine. Unlike his Republican opponent James Baker, he did not bully. Instead he explained--lucidly and persuasively...
...need to raise awareness about the risks that accompany sleep-starvation. At the same time we need to deflate the macho image that accompanies survival on micro amounts of sleep. We have to create a climate in which people who get enough sleep are considered the smart ones. We can start a campaign in the dorms and Houses advertising the combined benefits of adequate sleep, nutrition and exercise. We can make a concerted effort to reduce noise-levels after...
Even some of the guys are acting more like the gentler sex. Macho producer Jerry Bruckheimer is releasing Remember the Titans (Sept. 29), an integration drama with Denzel Washington set in 1971 against the backdrop of high school football. Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller do some bonding (and some hilarious head butting) in Meet the Parents (Oct. 6). And Jim Carrey's heart grows several sizes in Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Nov. 17). Must be those treatments from Nurse Betty...
...crowd. First there's the playful insult: yes, you're a bottom-dwelling pundit and not a beat reporter, but he lightens that by knowing who you are and kidding around about it. He admits he's a regular guy who likes to get his sleep, unlike those macho types boasting how they get by on four hours a night. Disarmingly, he once allowed as how he missed his bed, his feather pillow (he carries one with him), his dog Spot and his cat Ernie. For all his jokes about suffering, he campaigns at what must be the most leisurely...
...benefits of the 71-year reign of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) is that it controls the levers of Mexico's political machine, which makes Fox something of an outside chance. But even if he doesn't beat out the P.R.I.'s candidate--the decidedly less macho Francisco Labastida Ochoa--this Sunday, Fox has certainly changed Mexican politics...