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Uncle Buddy, a lively (and off-color) raconteur, regaled the young Clinton with tales of hunting dogs, life's ironies and the maxims people should live * by. Asked about his own family tragedies, he told his nephew, "Yes, life's tough, but I signed on for the whole trip." To...
Seen in that light, the revelations about lewd shenanigans at the Tailhook convention of Navy and Marine aviators last September, which have already cost Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III his job, may be a blessing in disguise. Much as race riots in 1972 led to racial reforms within the...
Just as the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings made women recall their own tales of sexism, so has the Tailhook scandal made females in uniform question their handling of aberrant behavior in the past. One Air Force captain recalls overlooking a minor incident years back. The man got promoted and...
Ross Perot, who often talks before he thinks, is currently in his denial mode. According to Perot, the well-sourced stories of his bizarre behavior and shoot-from-the-lip policy pronouncements are either gross distortions or outright lies, the product of Republican "dirty tricksters" and their running-dog co...
Most Harvard students who pass the odd sculpture daily wonder about its origins, but never learn the truth. Crimson Key tour guides may mention the lion-turtle (actually a dragon), but tend to concentrate on more mundane tales of John Harvard and the "statue of three lies." The history of...