Word: mentions
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...historic legacy. But no sooner had the Chrysler chairman stepped down in 1992 than the wheels began to fall off. His third marriage disintegrated. His 1995 partnering with Las Vegas financier Kirk Kerkorian in an abortive bid to take over Chrysler ended in a fiasco of lawsuits, not to mention accusations of treachery and avarice by his former colleagues...
...Kendall's lawyering, the White House figured to serve Dale Bumpers as dessert. But the ex-Arkansas senator and current Clinton buddy did even better than that. For the first time in this plodding impeachment trial, listeners were treated to a speech that was worthy of history -- not to mention a heck of a defense for the President. "He was kind of the antidote to the legal arguments," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "He was well-regarded as a senator, and he was a friend of Clinton who could talk to them, politician to politician...
First, in speaking about Radcliffe's mission, no mention was made of the bloated bureaucracy at Fay House. From fiscal 1992 through fiscal 1998, Radcliffe's general and administrative expenses compounded at a 14.2 percent rate, according to the college's annual reports. These do not include the expenses for the capital campaign, a sum by the way, which has been far in excess of the norm usually spent on campaigns of its size...
Second, when speaking of Radcliffe's endowment, no mention was made at how poorly it has been managed. The compounded 10 year return was 12 percent--among the worst (if not the worst) records of any endowment of comparable size. In the past three years alone (the only years for which Radcliffe shows these numbers), the endowment has underperformed its modest benchmark number by an average of more than three percentage points per year...
More, perhaps, than this movie wants to let on. Or, perhaps, dares to let on, given its source. Frank Cottrell Boyce's script insists that the sisters' wrangles were few and quickly subsumed by the near mystic bond they shared. He and the director, Anand Tucker--not to mention the marketing department--want us to understand this as a love story. But to do that they have to sanctify Hilary's passivity without acknowledging its aggressiveness. That has the unintended consequence of stupefying her and giving Rachel Griffiths an almost impossible role to play. Since Jackie's husband, the potentially...