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...hired as a TIME correspondent in 1985, he couldn't believe his good fortune. "Are you sure you're not making a big mistake?" he asked the deputy chief of correspondents. An odd question to put to one's new boss, but then Duffy has never been a stickler for convention. Working first in TIME's Washington bureau as Pentagon correspondent, then as a political reporter covering both the Bush and Clinton presidencies, Duffy developed a reputation as a maverick with a knack for finding the unturned stone in even the most thoroughly trodden beat--most notably in 1986, when...
...Stickler's Mirkheim is hard to like. A bad liar and a slimy businessman, we despise Mirkheim but we can't help rooting him on as the closest thing to normal in a twisted world...
Search and Destroy is the story of Martin Mirkheim (Lee Stickler), a man of the 80s who finds himself, unfortunately, in the 90s. With the IRS breathing down his neck and bankruptcy looming, he sets off on a nation-spanning, conscience-testing journey to save his financial and spiritual future...
Harvard has always been a stickler for tradition, and few events at Harvard are more laden with tradition than Commencement. This year, Harvard's longtime practice of having the Middlesex Country Sheriffs open and close Commencement exercises receives an interesting twist...
Rosovsky remembered Marquand as "a perfectcivil servant." He was a "stickler for detail" whowas known to send as many as six pages of typed,single-spaced notes to a caterer when planning anevent, Rosovsky said...