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...five children reared by a strict and deeply religious mother. Their father, an airline pilot, died when Rudolph was in his early teens. Teresa Morgan, 28, who attended school with the Rudolph kids, described them as "very well mannered. Everything was 'yes, ma'am' and 'no, sir.'" Rudolph, she recalls, was so bright and attentive in class that he could pass exams "without ever reading a textbook." He harbored "very extreme views" but was quiet and something of a loner. When other kids would go to a local lake to picnic and swim with family or friends, they would...
...sir! The generals on Wall Street do love a war. There's nothing like the smell of smart bombs in the morning--as long as they're ours--to arouse feelings of invincibility. And what better frame of mind for dialing one's broker and cheerfully picking up another 100 shares of Boeing or Lockheed Martin? With Saddam the Sequel possibly only days away, I guess it's no shocker that the market has hit new highs for the first time in six months...
...biggest White House dinner of the Clinton Administration, and it may have been the most fun. Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder sang and played, movie stars and producers glittered and laughed, and everyone danced. The guests of honor, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, stayed until midnight, and the Clintons didn't go upstairs for another hour after that. While the name Monica Lewinsky must have been whispered at some of the tables, the gaiety was so general that Clinton might have been able to forget it for a while...
...trying to unravel the detailed behavior of El Nino, Ralph and dozens of other researchers are furthering a scientific quest that began in the 1920s, when the British meteorologist Sir Gilbert Walker linked swings in atmospheric pressure over the Pacific to a disastrous failure of the Indian monsoon 50 years earlier. In the 1960s, UCLA meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes suggested that El Nino was governed by the same swings in atmospheric pressure...
...Spielberg, Barry Diller, Jack Welch, Warren Buffett, Tom Hanks, Ralph Lauren, John F. Kennedy Jr., Tina Brown, Anna Wintour, Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings. Bad luck seemed as far away as it must have seemed in the ballroom of the Titanic. How can anything be wrong when Stevie Wonder and Sir Elton John have come to sing...