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Mimi surfaced in a roundabout way. At the Kennedy Library, author Robert Dallek, when writing his new J.F.K. biography, An Unfinished Life, came across an oral history done in 1964 by one of the gentlest, most ardent Kennedy supporters in existence, Barbara Gamarekian. In it Gamarekian, who had worked in the White House press office and later became a reporter for the New York Times, talks about Mimi; but she had embargoed that section of her reminiscences. Dallek persuaded her to release...
...that can mean crowds of people or cars, but which also implies that movement is impossible. "Izdiham!" protest the drivers of patched-together taxis by way of explanation for their refusal to go to your destination or their insistence on dropping you off halfway there. At every intersection or roundabout, cars are ensnared in a Gordian knot that is painstakingly untangled by volunteers, who epitomize one of the defining paradoxes of Iraqi society: the conflict between "faudha" and "nidham," or chaos and order...
When he returned to the U.S. at 14, he took university classes and decided he wanted to go to college, but balked at putting together an application. With no conventional records of study, he proceeded to take a slightly more roundabout route: by the time he arrived at Harvard, he had taken university classes in Arizona, been kicked out of Cambridge Rindge and Latin for incurring too many absences, lived in nearly absoute silence in a monastery in Japan, cut down trees, maintained a library for a wealthy retired philosoper, and, of course, taught...
...favorite of Bush's father; Rumsfeld and Bush the elder never got along. Powell, a retired four-star general, trusts the military implicitly; Rumsfeld above all wants to teach it a few lessons. Each man enjoys rock-star status. Each came to his current post in a roundabout way. Rumsfeld, who once served as Richard Nixon's NATO ambassador, has become at 70 the civilian warrior. Powell, a lifetime soldier, is at 66 the country's top diplomat. In other words, each man considers himself an expert in his own field--and the other guy's as well...
Brown, now a Grammy award-winning artist and CEO of her own label, took a roundabout path to banjo stardom. After pre-med flirtation at Harvard, there was an MBA and a stint as an investment banker at Smith Barney. Ultimately, she traded in stocks and bonds for three-finger picking and shows at the Grand Ole Opry...