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...mending roads is a model for the Clinton presidency. Mark Penn, half the New York City duo of Penn & Schoen Associates, the President's pollsters, once likened Clinton's popularity to that of a former client, the rumpled, motor-mouthed mayor of New York City, Ed Koch. Koch was elected three times not because voters trusted him or wanted their children to grow up to be like him, asserts Penn, but because he helped make sense of a confusing time. He talked and listened and talked some more. In the latest abc News poll, 73% of voters say having...
...injury. He segued into a quieter career, acting. In January he will star in Lawless, a new private-detective series set in South Beach. Says he: "I am very much an extrovert when it comes to being in the spotlight. I need that attention to kind of rev my motor...
SACRAMENTO: The California Department of Motor Vehicles is blocking Chrysler from resupplying the state with new Chrysler cars for 45 days after dealers resold 116 "lemons" to California drivers. The breakdown-prone cars were bought back from unhappy drivers and resold by dealers after some repair work but without, state officials charge, properly disclosing that the cars had had previous problems or giving out the correct warranties. Chrysler will appeal the decision, which may indefinately delay the ban on the corporation restocking dealerships with vehicles. "This ruling is a lemon the size of the Yellow Submarine," says TIME's William...
Driscoll originally pleaded not guilty to the four charges, which also include assault in the third degree with a motor vehicle and a motor vehicle infraction. He will be sentenced on November 15 and faces a maximum sentence of 11-and-a-half years in prison, according to Assistant State's Attorney David S. Shepack...
...throw McNamara overboard during a ferry ride to Martha's Vineyard in 1972. Many of Hendrickson's scenes and anecdotes first appeared in the Washington Post in the mid-'80s. Here the journalist looks further into McNamara's brilliant careers at the Harvard Business School and the Ford Motor Co. The record reveals a top-of-the-line number cruncher steeped in the values of corporate loyalty. But as Secretary of Defense, his mistakes cost lives, not shareholder dividends. And yet his responsibilities required a level of abstraction and analysis that seems to have put him on another planet. Hendrickson...