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Sussman went on to write The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate and founded the Washington Post poll and the Washington Post/ABC News poll. He also wrote What Americans Really Think, published in 1988, and Maverick, A Life in Politics, published...
...yardbird misadventures during World War II, it instantly catapulted the 22-year-old North Carolina recruit to fame. The book and its sequel were made into movies starring Robert Walker. Hargrove went on to become a film and TV writer whose credits included The Music Man, I Spy, Maverick and The Waltons. Said Hargrove in 1947: "I was just an ordinary guy, writing for a small audience. Suddenly, success picked...
...Pakistani intelligence officer concedes the possibility that "maverick elements" among the Kashmiri militant groups?acting without Islamabad's support?might have been involved. And Umar wasn't coy about his willingness to use outside help, saying that "Whatever support we need, we ask and they give us." A Dubai-based Islamic militant leader even suggests that SIMI is part of a loose terror alliance that includes the Pakistani Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammmad, as well as Palestinian and other Middle Eastern groups. He says operatives have named themselves Ikhwan (brothers) and are sworn to avenge atrocities or injustices...
Zounds? Zounds is an old word, a fine word, a word with a pedigree. Iago says it in the opening lines of Othello; it was the 17th century's whoa. But it's not the first word one expects to hear from the "maverick" (USA Today), "insurgent" (Los Angeles Times), "fiery" (New York Observer) self-proclaimed leader of "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party," the great repository of hope--and donations--from the antiwar, anti-Bush, pro-gay, Michael Moore left. Even so, the Anglophile locution sounded quite natural coming from Dean's thin Wasp lips...
...overconfident. He also has that High Yankee yearning, that great fear of the titled that, as Kesey writes in Sometimes a Great Notion, "a man might struggle and labor his livelong life and make no mark! None! No permanent mark at all!" Dean may not be a maverick, but he may be something better: a real contender. Zounds. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr. and Nathan Thornburgh/Burlington