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...probably suspected as much. And yet you would abandon any candidate who dared to admit this, or at least they all believe that you would. We all are told at our high school graduations to be ambitious, then for the rest of our lives it becomes a shameful secret. Ambition can take many forms. Four decades ago, Norman Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary, created a sensation with a book called Making It that revealed how even intellectuals are ambitious. But the purest form of ambition is political ambition, because it represents a desire to rule over other people...
...criminal lawyer for the insane, a Scottish lord living out his 007 fantasies, two communism-curious retired Italian mechanics, a retired Italian pilot who made a sport of traveling to the world's most inaccessible places and a young Italian accountant living in Austria. And me, the not-so-secret journalist from Canada who was surprised to even be invited. We had all signed up for a most peculiar adventure: we were going to North Korea. As tourists...
...cloture. Hanks' portrayal of this genial, grasping, philandering Texas charmer owes a lot to Larry Hagman's J.R. Ewing from Dallas - a man who took so much pleasure in screwing people, and did it with so much con-artistry, that they often enjoyed it too. That's the secret of a successful politician: If you manipulate Them (the voters, the lobbyists, your colleagues) suavely enough, they'll think they're getting massaged. On TV, of course, J.R. was a villain, the snake with a smile. Charlie, dipping into the same bag of tricks, is a hero...
...what's the secret? Even Lyles isn't entirely sure. The zapped water has been ionized, he notes, and this may account for how it behaves on and in the skin. Stig Friberg, a colloid chemist and an expert in skin structure, suggests that C'watre's technology may alter the properties of the ocean water, which might in turn allow the treated water to better penetrate the skin...
...longer, often significantly so, than the traditional 26 miles (42 km)--with a 30-mile (48 km) event in New York. The co-founder of the Road Runners Club of America, he trained by running 200 miles (320 km) a week and won 30 of his 199 events. The secret? "[You] have to be very strange," he said. "You don't have to ... beat someone--you just have to get through the thing. That's the sense of victory." Corbitt...