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...infallible internal censor that kept his wisecracks from ever being cheap, or risqué, or mean. He kept a police whistle at his desk, which he'd blow whenever a line or bit of business crossed the line. He remained old-fashioned that way, as well as in his stubborn refusal, unlike Carson and almost everyone that followed, to do "savers" when a joke bombed. He might strip to his shorts onstage for an ice-water bath, but he never lost his dignity...
...life lined the stairwells, covered the entrances to the dining halls and glared at me from every lamppost and tape-able surface imaginable. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but these messages left little room in my mind for misinterpretation: Forget art. I should bank or consult. But I'm stubborn, and so, naively, I ignored the signs thinking that new ones would inevitably appear guiding me along my dream-path to a sun-filled studio. I patiently waited for the ads, the posters, the notes, the toys, but found nothing. Then I started searching for them, hunting for them, reading...
...Twain's hills and hollows are more methamphetamine labs than anywhere else in the nation and an immense acreage of cultivated marijuana. The forest also harbors more specialized hate groups than anyplace else in America. Its denizens, who proudly call themselves hillbillies, are among the most independent, suspicious and stubborn in the nation...
Adulthood has no doubt sharpened Karenna's political instincts, but they have failed her father on occasion. Some say Gore and his daughter are both stubborn and arrogant, each falling in love with the other's thinking simply because it's an echo of their own. Karenna, for instance, pushed to bring in Naomi Wolf, the feminist writer who advocates, among other things, teaching children the value of masturbation. Wolf's $15,000-a-month salary and memos pushing Gore to be an "alpha male" left the candidate withered by weeks of derisive press just as Bill Bradley started...
Your spouse says you're stubborn, your boss says you daydream too much, and your friends say you're manipulative. Congratulations! You may have what it takes to be President--at least according to psychologists Steven Rubenzer, Thomas Faschingbauer and Deniz Ones, who studied the personalities of all Chief Executives and revealed their findings at a psychology convention last week. Try this quiz (loosely based on their research) to see if you're Oval Office material...