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Think: you too could "run thymidine kinase assay on enzyme preparation from selected cell samples;" you too could be a fire watcher, a book salesman, a horticultural trainee, a budget analyst, or a summer civil servant...
...stomach is said to "knot" before a meeting with President Nixon; William Brennan "felt betrayed" at one point; Burger, who never spoke to the authors, "vowed to himself that he would grasp the reins of power immediately." Complains University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland, a longtime court watcher: "We're just told by the authors that we've got to believe it. It's all Deep Throat-at best, hearsay twice removed." Says Critic Renata Adler, a Yale Law School graduate: "It's the most shallow and inaccurate piece of journalism I've ever...
...those early years, young Peter became a chronic watcher in the shadows backstage. He had slight choice in the matter. Given the rootless life of strolling players, there was little opportunity to develop friendships of a lasting sort. "I never had any real set mates," he told Biographer Peter Evans (Peter Sellers: The Mask Behind the Mask). "I'd make friends in one town for one week and then we'd move on. You'd hope, if you played that town again, maybe a year later, that the friend you'd made would still be around; perhaps...
...talking about the creation of an image," says one colleague and longtime Rather watcher. "It wasn't exactly bad for Dan Rather to have Richard Nixon after him. He was the perfect image of the tough reporter covering the Nixon White House. He's a guy who psyched out the networks, and particularly his own, a long time ago. He built Dan Rather...
Moore, who attended the conference said he is not actively supporting any candidate. "I'm just an avid watcher of political campaigns," he added...