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Unlike his father, who had his job thrust upon him at age 37 when his own father was paralyzed by a stroke, Sulzberger has followed a carefully calibrated path to the top. At the tender age of 14, he decided to leave his mother's house and go live with his father. He knows how hard it must have been on his mother, but, he says, "she didn't cry in my presence." He moved uptown to an elegant Fifth Avenue apartment that included his father's second wife Carol, so demanding that she once told the wife...
...Wright, Clinton's former gubernatorial chief of staff, the Democrats struck back even before Campbell spoke. Wright has collected just about everything anyone has ever said about Clinton (a research task that required poring through 1,200 boxes of Clinton's papers), and as journalists listened to Campbell's thrust, they had in their hands Clinton's two-pronged parry: a January 1989 letter in which Campbell praised Arkansas' "innovative ways," designed to make the South "more internationally competitive," and an August 1989 newspaper article in which Campbell said Clinton's "not one of those liberals...
...similar blast in May, had won only feeble support from Rome. Nonetheless, the courts managed to put more than 400 suspected mobsters on trial and convict the vast majority of them. But now the Mafia has challenged the prosecutors to back off, and its bloody taunt has thrust the country into a crisis of confidence, adding fear of civil disorder to serious economic troubles. Commented the Corriere della Sera: "We have chosen leaders who are very capable of shedding tears but perfectly incapable of assuming grave duties." The month-old government of Prime Minister Giuliano Amato found its attention painfully...
...clothing to her speech. And if her dad makes it into the White House, things will only get worse. Seventeen will publish a spread on 1600 Pennsylvania avenue's youngest resident; Sassy will run an interview and print every "like" and "um" Chelsea utters. She will be thrust headfirst into the role of American Spokesteen...
...first spurt of renewal was in the Middle Ages, creating the Gothic city. Then came a slump, as the ascendancy of Castile and the shift of trade from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic thrust Barcelona into a 200-year depression, from which it began to recover by industrializing only at the end of the 18th century...