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Franklin Roosevelt used to say his most difficult constituency was his own family. "One of the worst things in the world is being the child of a President," he maintained. "It's a terrible life they lead." Eleanor and Franklin's six children ran up a total of 19 marriages; two spouses committed suicide, many more seemed to drink themselves silly. The siblings called it "the body count...
Then she grabbed a bottle and ran upstairs to tell three visitors who had a special stake in the Hubble results: the people who had discovered the comet. Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker are a husband-and-wife scientific duo who spend their evenings scanning the skies for heavenly intruders; David Levy, an amateur astronomer, often helps them. When the partners found Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1993, they knew it was unusual, and further observation revealed that it was not one comet but at least 21 fragments, remnants of a single object that had been torn apart a year earlier...
Some see signs of change within this tight circle. Mark Rikess, 45, once ran his family Chevrolet dealerships in Minnesota and now heads a Los Angeles consulting firm that advises other dealers on ways to improve their selling practices. He has noticed that his clients tend to fall into the same pattern: second- or third-generation owners, college educated, between 35 and 45. "They want to change," Rikess says, "not because they are going to see a financial advantage today. They just don't want to run the business the way that Daddy ran...
Amid their grueling daily rounds, in which comforts are few and harassment of foreign journalists is growing -- friskings are common, and Barnes has twice been detained by police -- the reporters feel a dispiriting sense of deja vu. "For older Haitians," says Diederich, who once ran the newspaper Haiti Sun, "the current crisis is like a rerun of an old horror movie." Diederich had just been expelled from Haiti when "Papa Doc" Duvalier thwarted President Kennedy's attempt to remove him from power in 1963. "The lesson of Papa Doc's defying the U.S. has not been lost on those...
...catch up," he scolded. "Let's find somebody -- anybody. I don't care if it's the janitor over there, if he knows how." Feet on the table, Kennedy pulled a piece of rubber off his shoe sole, which was built up to ease his back ailment. He ran his hands through his hair, tapped his teeth with his fingernails. He was only 43 and holding the world in his hands, and it was slippery. But he relished the challenge...