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Call it the macho critique of Clinton: the feeling among certain red-blooded types that any world leader who'd schedule his quickies through his secretary, cuddle his cutie in front of TV cameras and allegedly try to buy her loyalty with assorted knickknacks and a hatpin instead of, say, a new Camaro convertible, isn't, to judge by his street smarts, much worth following. Kinky trysts in the White House are one thing. Placing a phone call as your mistress pleasures you is something else entirely...
...parents' broken marriage). He studied drama at Northwestern University, where he met his wife, Lydia Clarke, an actress and photographer. They have been married for 54 years and remain close to their two grown children. As for his six-year-old grandson Jack, who lives close by, Heston's macho stance melts, and he turns positively gaga. "To me, he's king of the world," says the actor, surveying a once elegant patio, now taken up by a sandbox, a miniature basketball court and well-worn tricycles. The actor published a book last year, To Be a Man: Letters...
...very easily. India was driven to show off its atomic prowess by a newly aroused nationalism that will be hard to squelch and a macho sense of pride at joining the big boys in the still exclusive nuclear club. Pakistan, citing security fears, responded in kind. Neither country has in place any of the protective mechanisms that helped keep the superpower rivalry in check. Over four decades, the U.S. and the Soviet Union built spy satellites to watch each other's weapons, installed a hot line so the two leaders could communicate directly during crises, and negotiated treaties to contain...
...response to the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' choice of Kevin Kline as Man of the Year, the Lampoon honors wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage as its Real Man of the Year...
...nuclear club. "Today we have settled the score with India," Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared on Pakistani television. And it truly is a tit-for-tat: Five atomic devices were detonated at the Pakistani test site near the Iran-Afghanistan border, matching India bomb for bomb. Such an overtly macho action is hardly unusual in subcontinental politics. As TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says: "Pakistan is trying to return to the status quo ante...