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...film's secret star is Miep Gies, a Gentile who worked for Otto's company. Today she looks like a stoic maiden aunt; kids at a family dinner would peg her as a stodge. But that is because Hollywood teaches us to look for shining ideals in a pretty face. Gies has the plain face of true-life heroism. Each day for two years she took food, magazines and news of the war to the Franks. She persuaded them to accept Pfeffer as a boarder. When the family was seized, she boldly confronted the Nazis. She also saved Anne...
...start, he was a traditional crooner who learned intonation from Crosby and salesmanship from Jolson. Yet there was a hint in his gestures (eyes closed in ecstasy, arms stretched out imploringly) that he was parodying the very idea of crooner; he was a mellow modernist. You could also peg Dino as an anachronism, a Joe E. Lewis saloon-lush type, the party animal in a tux. Or maybe he was the first slacker, elevating sloth to a Zen art. The stupefaction he radiated on his TV show--the Golddiggers dancing around him as wildly as Jer used to, Dean standing...
...first pitcher since Walter Johnson in 1918-19 to have an era of 1.80 or less in two consecutive seasons. At 5 ft. 11 1/2 in., Maddux is one of the smaller Braves, and with his eyeglasses on, he's the last guy in the team picture you would peg for being the best pitcher in, oh, the past 75 years. "You should have seen him when he first broke in," says Braves outfielder Dwight Smith, who did indeed debut with Maddux in 1984, when the Chicago Cubs sent the two draftees to Pikeville, Kentucky. "He was an itty-bitty...
Administrators are also reluctant to peg a cost on the project, but they say that it will largely pay for itself. "We know that if we simplify our work, eliminate duplication, provide people with information they need,... we'll hopefully save money at the same time," Martgulies says, "What started out as a project to fix the data...has evolved into a project into making our work more efficient and simpler and streamlined...
...services. To prevent the system from being too regressive, he would exempt certain foods and medicine and not tax the first $5,000 worth of purchases. "Every dollar you earn is yours," he says. This is greeted with scattered clapping, but when a gray-haired matron hears him peg the sales tax at 17%, she exclaims, "Lordy...