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...stir was triggered by 2,000 advance copies of the first 123 pages of McGinniss's book, which Simon & Schuster had been distributing to whet booksellers' interest. They contained a statement about McGinniss's extensive research, adding, "Some thoughts and dialogue attributed to figures in this narrative were created by the author, based on such research and his knowledge of the relevant people, places and events." When questioned, McGinniss admits that his subject granted him no interviews for the book; he also allows that he regularly inferred in his narrative what Kennedy might have been thinking. "I absolutely did that...
...Zooropa" is artistically exhilarating, the experimental cutting edge. Most bands would become comfortable upon reaching U2's level of success, and churn out more of the same old stuff. U2, however, has decided to stir up the familiar components and throw in a few new elements. Consider it an experiment to see if the public can accept a changing...
...critical of what he sees as Republican attempts to stir up racial animosity from the "southern strategy" to "Welfare Queens", arguing that conservatives have a particular burden to be progressive on civil rights because of their mixed record...
...rules aimed at crippling Houtkin's business. The association even threatens to cut him off by scrapping the order-execution capability of its advanced computer system, which it touts in TV ads as "the stock market for the next hundred years." Why the hysteria? Houtkin's clients stir up "waves of orders that increase short-term volatility," charges Richard Ketchum, chief operating officer of the dealers' group. "This substantially increases the risk for marketmakers, which winds up costing the individual investor more money...
...periods of time to a constant repetition of the highest note in the scale." But as Theodore Sorensen has written, Kennedy (like Roosevelt) wasn't shy about using set speeches and Oval Office addresses "for truly important business." There's a time to use the presidency's prestige to stir the public in a way that gets Congress's attention. That time...