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...policy, especially on gays. The President stumbled into a faux pas on the issue during a press conference last week when he said, in response to a reporter's question, that he would consider separating members of the military according to sexual orientation. While the White House tried to portray his remarks as indicative only of his open-mindedness, both sides in the debate promptly condemned the idea...
...Johnson is kind of a super maitre d', a guy who really knows how to work a room," Gelbart explains. But in the book, Burrough and Helyar also portray him as a Machiavellian cutthroat who betrayed numerous colleagues on his way - to the top, a spendthrift who moved the RJR Nabisco headquarters to Atlanta -- callously firing thousands of employees in the process -- in part because he didn't like "bucolic" Winston-Salem, and a derelict CEO who repeatedly misled his shareholders, his employees and his board of directors...
...have often used the illusion of power to enact their goals. In an article published last Friday on our club, however, it is The Crimson and others who have tried to create this false illusion, not myself, while I am some-what amused by this paper's attempt to portray me as the Despot of the Democrats, the record needs to be cleared...
...dramatic rescue of five skiers in Aspen, Colorado, continues to grab headlines and the attention of producers and agents. How TV might portray the story...
Moyers then repairs to the U.S. for the rest of the series. His first stop is with doctors who study the biology of emotion. Using Method actors to portray extreme anger and fear, the researchers show that even these artificially conjured emotions produce telltale changes in blood chemistry...