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...DIED. WALT ROSTOW, 86, easygoing yet hawkish adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson whose unfailing optimism about U.S. involvement in Vietnam helped propel the war; in Austin, Texas. The son of a Socialist, he coined Kennedy's campaign slogan, Let's Get This Country Moving Again. The onetime M.I.T. economics professor saw the war primarily as a means of ensuring modernization and development in Southeast Asia. He never publicly regretted his position, saying in 1986, "I'm not obsessed with Vietnam, and I never was. I don't spend much time worrying about that period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 24, 2003 | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...admittedly absorbed Doc?s ideas like a sponge and turned him into the model for half a dozen characters in his books. (Ricketts "was part of my brain," the Nobel-prizewinning writer later said.) In the hazy predawn hours, over mugs of his home brew, Ricketts spouted poetry (Walt Whitman was a favorite), discussed modern art with ease and engaged in a game he called speculative metaphysics. Boozy bull sessions? Perhaps, but Ricketts also waxed eloquently about the power of cause and effect in nature?s life cycles. He saw a deep unity in elements that others might regard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost of Old Doc Ricketts | 2/19/2003 | See Source »

Other members of the Forbes 400 would also do quite nicely, based solely on their stockholdings in their companies. Philip Knight, Nike's billionaire founder and chief executive, who turned a sneaker into a household name, could save $14 million or more in taxes. Michael Eisner, ceo of the Walt Disney Co., could shave off $1 million. Still others belong to an elite tax-savings fraternity. Most notably: the five members of the Walton clan of Arkansas, the first family of Wal-Mart Stores, who could pocket $187 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Really Unfair Tax | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...paean to his pal, described Hirschfeld as "a pair of liquid brown eyes, delicately rimmed in red, of an innocence to charm the heart of the fiercest aborigine, and a beard which could engulf everything from a tsetse fly to a Sumatra tiger. In short, a remarkable combination of Walt Whitman, Lawrence of Arabia, and Moe, my favorite waiter at Lindy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: The Fun in Al Hirschfeld | 1/29/2003 | See Source »

...atlas would assist dialectologists by allowing them to track regional dialect trends and population migrations, said North Carolina State University linguistics professor Walt Wolfram...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vaux Conducts Survey for Online Dialect Atlas | 1/29/2003 | See Source »

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