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Rumor: Giuliani likes George Steinbrenner. Fact: Of all the vicious, scurrilous things said about our mayor, this is the worst. The mayor does not "like" anyone. He simply recognizes the Yankee owner as a trustworthy and fair-minded sports executive whose goal is to exchange the musty old Yankee Stadium that New Yorkers find so sterile and bland for a sparkling modern entertainment venue in a more affluent district, one closer to theme restaurants and uninfested by rude squeegee...
...nearly 40 years of performing left ahead of him in 1956; more than two-thirds of his professional life was spent in the rock era, much of it reacting to rhythms and attitudes he found alien. "The most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear," Sinatra wrote of rock 'n' roll at the time of Elvis Presley's pre-eminence, no doubt hoping to turn back the Mongols. It didn't quite work, and in efforts to maintain his commercial viability, Sinatra would eventually record Presley's hit Love Me Tender as well...
...time, only as a kind of bemused white-bread oddity wearing burgundy Rockport shoes, set down for a while among black dope dealers in New Haven, Conn.; or Chicano gangbangers in the Yakima Valley of Washington State; or piney-woods country people in East Texas; or, finally, among forlornly vicious white junior Nazis, feral and bored to death, in Antelope Valley, in northern Los Angeles County...
...feels that U.S. Catholicism, 60 million members strong, is in danger of a split. At one extreme, he discerns "restless innovators" whose liberal "sloganeering" he finds ineffective; at the other "Papal maximalists" who have prospered under the current papacy but "sensing victory, [have become] even more judgmental and vicious." The vast, threatened "middle ground" is proud of the Pope but ignorant of his writings, defiant of his sexuality rulings and worried that the priest shortage threatens their beloved parish life...
...mother and siblings made a perilous escape west out of occupied Czechoslovakia to avoid being trapped under the coming Russian terror. And in his first job with TIME, in 1965, he was one of our most fearless war correspondents in Vietnam. He repeated that role in the vicious war in Lebanon in 1975. He then held postings around the world and became the managing editor of TIME's international editions, building a fledgling into what is today a thriving global presence for this magazine. He was demanding of the people who worked for him and equally tough on the people...