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...Bill had little use for ostentatious frills. His friend Tom Sancton, a senior editor, recalls that Bill liked to quote Mahatma Gandhi's admonition: "Simplify your needs." Long after the rest of us switched to electric typewriters, and later computers, he continued pounding out copy on his beloved Royal manual. A blindingly fast typist, he would write one perfect paragraph per page and then rearrange the order of the pages until he got the story structure right. One of his few concessions to modern technology was his habit of wearing airport-style antinoise earphones when he was writing on deadline...
...Ignatiev, a native of Philadelphia, spent the next 23 years holding manual labor jobs in steel mills, farm equipment factories and machine tool plants around Chicago...
...dark, of course. "Campaigning," said a manual used by Nixon's political staff, "is symbolic, i.e., it is not what the candidate actually does as much as what it appears he does." Bush will do what he has already begun doing. He will speak of addressing the "causes of unrest" and the importance of "understanding hopelessness." This much he can do in his sleep. Bush has always spoken about compassion and opportunity and fairness. As Vice President, he told a friendly biographer that "as long as there are people hurting out there, out job isn't over . . . we will never...
...other side, Edwin Delattre, a Boston University ethics professor who has written a book on the use of force that is widely studied as a police training manual, says he has talked to hundreds of officers since the King tape was first shown. Says he: "They feel betrayed by the low standards of the police in Los Angeles. There is indignation and resentment; they believe the four cops in L.A. should have been convicted. Police all over the country are appalled that those police used force in such a contemptible way." Maybe so, but these officers have also been keeping...
...Hispanic male population has the highest manual labor participation rate," Beleche said. "That's be cause there's such a low retention rate in the schools. We also have the highest percentage of working poor and lowest educational attainment level...