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...parents were??social activists; her own activism began in college, where she organized local farmers. So in 1964 when clinical psychologist Carolyn Goodman's son Andrew wanted to go to Mississippi to help black voters register, she said, "we couldn't talk out of both sides of our mouths. We had to let him go." After Andrew and two other civil rights workers were murdered by Klansmen, Carolyn raised her national profile, repeatedly giving interviews at home among photos of Andrew and using her prominence to support myriad civil rights causes...
...facts were??blindingly obvious, claimed the precocious Harvard graduate in his book The Naval War of 1812, or the History of the United States Navy During the Last War with Great Britain. First, in the eternal Darwinian struggle that took place between calculating, egoistic nation-states, it was essential for one country--in this case, the U.S. at the close of the 19th century--to avoid "a miserly economy in preparation for war." And for a state as dependent on sea power as America, it was unthinkable that the nation "rely for defence [sic] upon a navy composed partly...
...first order of business, then, was balancing the budget. "And we've done it," he says, with pride. "If you recall where we were???no credit, the seasonal loans were running out. Nobody thought we would get the federal loan guarantees we had to have. Not Felix certainly. [Felix Rohatyn, chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation created in 1975 to borrow for the city, and New York's chief financial strategist.] I want to give full credit to Felix for his brilliant conception of what had to be done. But I take a lot of credit for getting it done...
...people he most despised. He made us mini-household words, and in the case of Woodward and Bernstein, real folk heroes." (Well, sort of.) The moviemakers were particularly on guard against showing the "Woodstein team," as they came to be known in Washington, as anything other than what they were???hungry reporters desperately eager for a break. But the film will augment what they have since become: very rich reporters in the anomalous and, for most newsmen, disquieting position of being more famous than many of their sources...
...awful lot of discouraged women out there." One Wharton alumna wrote, "I work twice as hard as a man just to prove I am not a dumb woman." Anti-female prejudice leaves a mark even on the most successful women. Virtually all harbor memories of slights and obstacles that were???or are?put in their paths...