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Alarmists in the newsroom feared that Willes, an economist by training, might appoint himself editor. Instead he anointed the respected (and reassuringly rumpled) Michael Parks, the paper's 53-year-old managing editor (and a Pulitzer-prizewinning foreign correspondent). Coffey tried to put on a good face, saying he needed...
This contrast between subtlety and silliness, improbability and believability, makes for a thrilling yet well-balanced summer blockbuster. And, best of all, the ever-reliable Ford is there to save the day. Though the action seldom descends below 15,000 feet, and Ford wears a rumpled suit and tie rather...
For five days, the negotiators, exhausted and increasingly needy of fresh shirts, darted between Washington's Park Hyatt and ANA hotels, from conference room to mezzanine, hallway to bedroom conference call. Every so often, rumpled lawyers would emerge with wildly divergent claims about the progress of the fractious tobacco talks...
DIED. BOB DEVANEY, 82, pre-eminent coach in college football in the early 1970s when he led the University of Nebraska to back-to-back national titles; in Lincoln, Neb. His wisecracking style and plump, rumpled figure sometimes made rivals underestimate him. But he never coached a losing season during...
The real job of the affable Berger is to be Mr. Inside, the daily consensus builder brokering honestly among competing interests from State, Defense, the intelligence community, the NSC staff. He'll be there to get the job done. This rumpled trade lawyer lacks the intellectual heft of Lake but...