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This astutely reported account of the rise of the late Secretary of Commerce from Harlem's black bourgeoisie to the apex of political power is a warts-and-all portrait of a smooth operator. Holmes, a former TIME correspondent and now the chief race-relations reporter for the New York Times, notes that Brown's strength was making connections between the black world he sprang from and the white power structure. His weakness, which Holmes unflinchingly describes, was an inability to resist the financial and sexual rewards that came along as he clawed...
Americans are about to get their own version of this metallic frisson. A smooth-edged, golden-hued $1 coin is working its way into circulation. By year's end the U.S. Mint hopes to have about 1 billion of the dollar coins bouncing in our pockets. And unlike the Susan B. Anthony dollar of the 1980s--a wimpy, woefully misshapen quarter--the new Sacagawea dollar has the gravity and import of the pound. It looks and feels like something you might see in an Old West saloon, perfect for a nation that worships its frontier past. (It's no accident...
...celebrating TV history, these revivals tend to smooth it over. CBS's The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (May 19, 8 p.m. E.T.), which brings the Duke boys' story up to date, is the same Southern-fried minstrelsy that makes the series a hoot to remember but excruciating to relive. But worse, by making Bo and Luke allies with Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane and deputies Enos and Cletus, the movie guts the one aspect of the show that made it more than a cornpone car chase--two good ole boys "fightin' the system like two modern-day Robin Hoods...
...order of the day until the market has a clearer idea of just how high the Fed plans to go at its June meeting, there may be a silver lining for investors in Greenspan's desire to get the job done quickly. "The need to ensure a smooth landing rather than bring the economy crashing to a halt means that the Fed will want to make any increase in June their last for the year," says Baumohl. "It wouldn?t be at all surprising if, once it absorbed that increase, the market shows a healthy rebound...
...GSAS, as one unified umbrella organization with many sub-departments, facilitates the smooth completion of such an ad-hoc or inter-faculty degree. Candidates express few frustrations with the system...