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After the stint at ABC, Cohen says he worked as a producer on various projects until he landed...
...moved from Guadalajara to Texas with her Mexican mother. Taking advantage of her father's U.S. nationality, Laura became a naturalized citizen in 1979, when she was 14. Bilingual in Spanish and English, she added French during a year of school in Switzerland and did a stint as a social worker in India. Two years ago, a friend in El Paso encouraged Herring to enter a beauty contest. Chosen Miss El Paso in 1984, she became Miss Texas this year and finally Miss U.S.A., the first Hispanic and the first foreign-born contestant to win the title, which brings with...
...Roger Mudd put in 18-hour days manning not only the evening news shows but dozens of special bulletins during the week. (Tom Brokaw, NBC's regular anchor, was on vacation in Africa.) The story seemed tailor-made for Jennings, whose insightful commentary capitalized on his stint as ABC's chief Middle East correspondent from 1969 to 1975. Jennings' linguistic skills also came in handy. When a French-speaking operator attempted to cut off an on-air telephone conversation between the anchor and a correspondent in Algiers, Jennings negotiated a reprieve in flawless French...
...most people, leaving high public office quickly leads to a loss of prominence. Not so for Jeane Kirkpatrick. Ten weeks after returning to private life from her four-year stint as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, the blunt-spoken Kirkpatrick has become a star on the lecture circuit, a hero within her newly adopted Republican Party and probably the most talked-about, albeit undeclared, electoral newcomer on the political scene. Though Kirkpatrick finds the glare of personal celebrity "very unexpected," she is passing up few opportunities to make the most of it. "I get a lift from speaking...
Stanton is currently ending a four-year stint as chairman of the Board of Overseers visiting committee on the Kennedy School. He also sits on the visiting committees of the Graduate School of Design and the Fogg Museum...