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...young Hall. It is an image he cultivates, showing up at meets in leather motorcycle pants and cruising around in a customized 1962 purple microbus. When the Dead's Jerry Garcia died, Hall swam his next meet with a black band traced on his arm in felt-tip pen. His devil-may-care attitude, however, masks a troubled past. As an adolescent, Hall was an indifferent student who clashed with his parents and took refuge at friends' homes. But Hall idolized his maternal grandfather, Charles Keating Jr., a one-time NCAA swimming champion with whom he would shoot prairie dogs...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: It looks like Bill Clinton may be onto something. In recent weeks, he has freely wielded the powerful pen of executive directives, addressing everything from educational TV, to gun sales to minors to the notion of asking school districts to require school uniforms, without actually asking Congress to fund new programs. Wednesday's topic du jour: free cell phones for neighborhood crime watch groups. The White House has announced that the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association will contribute 50,000 cell phones pre-programmed to dial 911, along with free cellular air time, to the nation...
With that pen stroke, Yeltsin had hired the tough-talking maverick paratrooper for two jobs: the President's top national security adviser and secretary of the Kremlin's Security Council, which coordinates foreign and domestic policy. "This is not just an appointment," Yeltsin told reporters. "This is a union of two politicians and two programs. I will now make corrections in my own program in the areas of military reform, national security and the battle against crime and corruption...
...that roll call identified the most powerful people in America rather than the most influential (a more subtle concept), then the President would be at the top. Power and influence generally go hand in hand. Anyone who has the clout to make decisions with the stroke of a pen has influence over the way we think and live. But some people, particularly Presidents, are more notable for the former than the latter. Clinton is powerful. He can propose how to parcel out the federal budget, stock the federal courts and decide which uncooperative trade partners get spanked. Influential is another...
...first week or two we learned to recognize and reproduce colors specified by hue, intensity and neutralization. By the end of the year we were painting still-lifes and copying Rembrandt pen and wash drawings. In between, we copied Greek and Japanese line drawings, Persian designs, Botticelli's Venus and a good deal more. As a child I had loved to draw and had attended drawing and painting classes at the Museum School in Cleveland, but I knew nothing about art. Fine Arts A taught me how to see a painting or drawing--knowledge that has enriched my life immeasurably...