Word: silver
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Neither McCain nor Webb had anything to do with Iran-contra. Webb, another true battlefield hero (Navy Cross, Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts), was no hot dog but rather, in many ways, the smartest and best of the bunch. After the typically bitter homecoming from the war, he forged a career as a novelist, writing the best battlefield novel of Vietnam, Fields of Fire. During the Reagan Administration, he had a brief and stormy tenure as Secretary of the Navy...
THERE ARE MYRIAD WAYS TO GET AROUND the estrogen question. A woman can use herbs, vitamins and a positive mental at titude. A woman of my age (40) cannot remain ignorant of the "horrors" that lie ahead. But I wear my vivid shock of silver hair front and center. I survey my body with honest appraisal and admit that I don't look like I used to. And though faced with incontrovertible evidence that I have become "a woman of a certain age," I wouldn't be younger for anything or anyone. I am proud of what the years have...
...shingled cottage in Sausalito a block from San Francisco Bay, Allende surrounds herself with mementos: Paula's baby shoes, encased in copper; photographs of her, framed in silver; the earthen jar that contains Paula's ashes; and a letter Paula wrote during her honeymoon, foreseeing her own death. Petite and intense, Allende pours mango tea by a vase of wildflowers in the sunlit room. "All my books come from deep emotion," she says. "They are not born in my mind, they gestate in my womb." Her eyes welling with tears, she spreads across the table the handcrafted cards she uses...
Other social scientists were incredulous. "Her work contradicted everything that had come before," says Sheldon Danziger, a public-policy professor at the University of Michigan. As experts scratched their head, most politicians salivated. O'Neill had confirmed a "silver bullet" solution to a vexing social problem. Only New Jersey's Republican Governor, Christine Whitman, courageously refused to endorse O'Neill's conclusions, preferring to wait for the results of a larger and more objective investigation...
...weren't for the fact that Gingrich stands to become a multimillionaire in the long run, you would feel sorry for the guy. After all, the best thing about a book tour is suites in nice hotels with unlimited room service, the $5 Coke on a silver tray that drops down from publishing heaven. On HarperCollins' tab (backed by an advertising, marketing and promotion budget of $500,000), Gingrich was looking at the Four Seasons and the Ritz Carlton, according to publicist Steve Sorrentino. On his own nickel, the Speaker may be using up his frequent-flyer miles and wolfing...