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Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party. Bill Dedman

Party Some Joined Never He Maintained Although Been Clinton Label Quick Communist Communist Party

Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them. Bill Dedman

Though Some Student He Particularly Idolized May Them Activists

The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger. Bill Dedman

Life Risks World Wealth Daughter Ambition Reputation Distance Danger Clark Running Threads Folly Someone Costs Through Main Outside Tension Between Safe Judging His Burdens Engaging Inherited Include Lives Keeping Fragility

I'm not a person who has people tell me things in parking garages. Bill Dedman

Me People Tell Parking Person Who Things

I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess. Bill Dedman

Business Guess Place

Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician. Bill Dedman

Man Young Politician Born Most Young Man Jason

Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector. Bill Dedman

Clark Collector Doll Artist Painter

John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden. Bill Dedman

Polygraphs have sparked a fierce debate for at least a century. Bill Dedman

Debate Least Fierce Century

The term 'triage' normally means deciding who gets attention first. Bill Dedman

First Attention Term Normally Gets Deciding Means Who

In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War. Bill Dedman

War Age People Made Long Lost Reputation Assumed Montana William Clark Civil Born Civil War Had He Dead Were His Where Children After Fortune Serve

Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required. Bill Dedman

Strong Cause Year Enough Typical Earthquake Could Which Public Required Radiation Expose Each Each Year Nuclear Chance Damage Core

State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones. Bill Dedman

Government Business State Rule Correspondence About Records Between Courts Private Government Officials Accounts Officials Whether Public Use

ABC forbids political activity by journalists. Bill Dedman

Political ABC Journalists Political Activity Activity

Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment. Bill Dedman

Political Matter Prohibit Both Journalists Political Activity Activity Assignment

The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required. Bill Dedman

Take Advantage Every States Administration Inspection Federal Take Allowed Instead Advantage Highway Loophole Years Normally Required Regulations Bridge Four Two

Federal agencies that own bridges have some of the worst records for on-time inspections. Nearly 3,000 bridges owned by U.S. government agencies went more than two years between checkups. Bill Dedman

Government Own Worst Some More Inspection Records Federal Between Government Agencies Years Than Owned Agencies Bridges Nearly Two

Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse. Bill Dedman

Failure Cause Single Design Collapse Kind Minneapolis Entire Inspection Federal Part Like Forbid Fallen Lack Regulations Bridge Bridges

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