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In a state known for hard-nosed law enforcement, no one talked tougher than Arizona Governor Fife Symington. Since taking office in 1991 he had called countless times for more arrests and harsher penalties. "Crime is not traced to the lack of material things," he once said. "It happens through...
I don't know what kind of Stepford time warp Ferguson lives in, but here in Vermont, the guy who services our office computer network drives a minivan; so does the gentleman who maintains the brochure racks in my office, and my caterer and contract furniture supplier. Not a housewife...
In a world of casual Fridays, how's a photographer supposed to make a hard-nosed guy look footloose and fancy-free? Remove his shoes, of course. Magazine photo shoots have become like Buddhist temples: no shoes allowed. Not since Kennedy (triumphantly barefoot on the beach) defeated Nixon (wading through...
Or, in their higher echelons, a case-hardened if amiable professionalism. A primary reason for the church's business triumphs, says University of Washington sociologist Stark, is that it has no career clerics, only amateurs who have been plucked for service from successful endeavors in other fields. (In fact, there...
Before Fred Thompson became a celebrity in his biggest role ever--a hard-nosed U.S. Senator rooting out foreign influences in American politics--he was just a little ol' lawyer with Arent Fox, a D.C. firm that at the time did legal and lobbying work for several foreign governments and...