Word: majority
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...girth and 60 lbs. to his ego. After a trip to Asia, he came back and bragged that Mongolians in yurts were devotees of his Republican revolution. At the center of the cosmological charts he doodled was, no surprise, himself. In his books he was a major historical figure, a planetary visionary, often misunderstood. In former Congresswoman Susan Molinari's book he came off as a blubbering though entertaining megalomaniac. At one point, she recalls, he revealed how heavily he bore his mantle: "I get up every morning and say to myself, 'This is the day I shall...
...wants to bring things to the fastest possible conclusion, that represents an opportunity to act with a minimum of interference from diehards who still want Clinton's head. There was no dissent even from the right wing last week when Hyde announced a streamlined hearings schedule with just one major witness: independent counsel Kenneth Starr, on Nov. 19. That's what the Democrats had wished for, though they too may want to be careful: Starr might come across as the arrogant inquisitor many Democrats view him as, but then again, he might...
...gets to sponsor or manage a government-backed or -bankrolled investment fund? People who have the proper political ties or who are major campaign contributors or both. Like the billionaire Ziff brothers, whose fortune came largely from the 1994 sale of the family publishing business built by their father. Since 1996, Ziff Bros. Investments has overseen a $150 million OPIC-guaranteed fund, the South Asia Capital Fund, whose purpose is to make equity investments in India, Indonesia, Laos, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Philippines...
...watch--to see a year from now what compromises he'll need to make to be an effective leader." Stodghill, who came to TIME last year from Business Week and has written cover stories on the Promise Keepers and sex education, reports that Ventura is nonplussed about his first major transition, moving from his suburban Minneapolis ranch to the confines of the Governor's mansion. "He says he's looking forward to all the free food...
...School of Design last week. Following Richard Meier earlier in the week, Renzo Piano, one of the world's foremost architects and the man responsible for the planned revamping of the Harvard University Art Museums, spoke to a packed Piper Auditorium last Thursday. Famous for his work in such major spaces as Houston's Menil Collection, Osaka's Kansai Airport and Paris's Centre Georges Pompidou, Piano's speech attracted so large a crowd that not only was the auditorium packed, but even the secondary broadcast room was standing-room only. People had to be turned away in droves. Perhaps...