Word: macked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them on tours of Air Force One. The White House chief of staff would be crazy not to take calls from David Geffen, the producer; he donated $120,000 last year. (On the other hand, jokes the actor and activist Ron Silver, "Why anyone would want to talk to Mack McLarty is beyond...
...minute voting period, two Democrats the White House thought it had won over, James Hayes of Alabama and Tim Johnson of South Dakota, voted nay. Instantly, Clinton's margin disappeared. On Capitol Hill a nervous Howard Paster, the top Clinton lobbyist, telephoned White House chief of staff Thomas ("Mack") McLarty in the Oval Office. Mack, he said, "what's happening to our strategy...
Turow has been justifiably heralded for his plotting skills, but such praise has overshadowed his other great strength as a writer of popular entertainments. He is genuinely interested in showing what makes his characters behave the way they do. Mack remembers the late Leotis Griswell, one of the founding partners of his firm, saying, "So much of life is will." Having seen -- as a cop and a lawyer -- enough malefactors blame everyone for their misdeeds except themselves, Mack would like to believe that people are free to make choices: "Better to find options than that bondage of cause and effect...
...events of this novel, though, rattle Mack's faith in human autonomy. He sees people close to him behaving at the dictates of compulsions they do not understand or control. He begins to wonder whether he is not doing the same. Pleading Guilty is both an irresistible tale and a dark, moral thriller...
...Rose Keyser, Robert B. Stevens (Associate Editors); Kevin J. McVea (Operations); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Arnold H. Drapkin (Consultant); Dorothy Affa Ames, Sarah Buffum, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith-Alam (Assistant Editors); Cristina T. Scalet, Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Researchers) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau...