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...same as when he led the free world. The country needs a funny President, and Clinton is not it. To be truly funny, a U.S. President has to 1) have real wit, like Lincoln and J.F.K.; 2) be a sort of caricature, like Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Coolidge and F.D.R.; 3) act with such consistency in one's decisions and policies that the very predictability becomes a hoot; or 4) have done something that really merits the use of a special prosecutor...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III says Harvard's tourist load grew as a result of publicity from the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and John F. Kennedy '40, but he feels there is a simpler reason for the increase in visitors...
Kennedy never resolved the conflict--nor have we, nor will we. He was a driven philanderer at one moment. In the next he was a grand romantic who, with insight, eloquence and wit, sought a place among the legends Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and Franklin Roosevelt...
...remained orderly until Barton Biggs, one of the reigning rainmakers on Wall Street, conducted a conference call with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter clients. Set up by brokers who actually thought Biggs might be bullish, the big shots who dialed in got a dose of fear that would have chilled Roosevelt in '32. Biggs, it seems, had just come back from the Far East, and he was terrified by what he saw. He invoked all the bearish icons: the Great Depression, the Crash of '29 (I guess '87 seemed too benign), 40%-to-50% declines ahead in emerging markets...
...servant to improve the American family and the lives of children. How unfortunate that her accomplishments have been overlooked in a climate of negativism. Because she has forsaken the safe projects of former First Ladies and tackled more controversial issues, she has come under heavy criticism, as did Eleanor Roosevelt more than a half-century ago. Her book, It Takes a Village, has inspired many acts of kindness. She will be remembered as one of America's most admired First Ladies. JOHN E. MILLER JR. Fort Lauderdale...