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Former President Gerald Ford, the lastRepublican candidate to lose a presidentialelection, began the final session of theconvention with a speech that chornicled thesuccessful Republican presidential terms and endedwith a quote from Former President John Adamsabout who should reside in the White House: "Maynone but honest and wise men ever rule under thisroof...
...rousing moral outrage. Like it or not, the world looks to the U.S. to lead an international response. In Washington the curious alchemy of press coverage, public opinion and a presidential campaign abruptly transformed the distant saga of suffering into a political question too sharp to ignore: Is it wise for the West -- or is it required of the West -- to intervene with military force in the Balkans? Does the new world order that George Bush espouses encompass a minimal moral code, starting with the command of the Holocaust-inspired international convention on genocide to "prevent and to punish" mass...
...some guys do get wise. Something about all the guns and death and arrests just adds up. "I was scared I'd have to shoot somebody," says Juan Vanga, 22, who took a three-minute beating from five guys to get out of the Latin Kings in Chicago last year. "Hell, five of my friends are already dead." Some guys get bored. "I wasn't scared or anything," says Eddie Calderon, 16, who quit the Latin Kings last month in a flurry of blows. "I just got sick and tired of holding the guns...
Once Sulzberger became deputy publisher in 1988, he felt for the first time "the job was mine to lose." His confidence increased, and the Lettermanesque wise-guy side of his personality receded. Reporters noticed a deeper affection growing between him and his father, "Punch" Sulzberger. One editor observed, "Arthur took on some of Punch's winning characteristics -- his self-deprecating humor, his listening rather than talking." (He did not find it humorous, however, when people tried to stick him with the obvious diminutive "Pinch.") When, just after being named publisher, he said that it gave him comfort to know that...
...lived next door to the Clintons when she and Bill were in high school, says that as a preacher's kid, she never even knew about the town's reputation as sin city. Did the Clintons know? I ask her. "Oh, yes, they were more sophisticated, more worldly-wise." Clinton's mother liked the gambling, and his stepfather, who was still drinking, flew into rages when he was not sure where she had been. In a deposition for divorce proceedings, the mother feared for her son's safety: "He has continually tried to do bodily harm to myself...