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...Star, was reporting that a woman named Gennifer Flowers was talking about her affair with Bill Clinton. There was no road map for surviving something like that, but the Clintons reacted boldly. They sent a young adviser named Mandy Grunwald to appear on Nightline, which was then at the peak of its influence. Host Ted Koppel was known as a master interrogator - but as soon as he opened the interview, Grunwald sprang to the attack. Why was Koppel letting "a trashy supermarket tabloid" set the agenda...
Every year hundreds of people die while living life to the fullest - battling white-water rapids, climbing the world's tallest mountain peak, descending to the depths of the ocean. These extreme sports are inherently dangerous and you take your chances. Or do you? "One of the things about these high-risk activities is that if you're going to participate in them you assume a certain kind of risk," says Prof. Lyrissa Lidsky, who teaches tort law at the University of Florida. In the case of Groh, the question is whether the tour operator failed to use reasonable care...
Favorite childhood toy: Rock Band (I’m at the peak of my childhood...
...with the electric instruments of funk and rock, creating a sub-genre called “fusion” that held tremendous sway during the 1970s and 80s. Hancock left Davis’ group in 1968 and began a long experimental relationship with funk music. This relationship reached its peak in 1973 with the album “Headhunters,” whose opener (“Chameleon”) and funk version of an earlier Hancock track (“Watermelon Man”) influenced R&B and hip hop artists for decades to come. His 1983 mainstream single...
Over a hundred people opted to head onto a chilly observation deck where the eclipse, which reached its peak at around 11 p.m., was framed by the Boston skyline...