Who's WhoVolume 296 no. 2 / September 2005 Abbas, Mahmoud, as cold fish, 76 Abraham, Daniel, SlimFast mogul, private plane of, 71 Agee, James, prodigious talent of, 119; "shameless inopportunism" of, 119; on film, 119-120 Andropov, Yuri, Arafat-proof properties of, 76 Arafat, Yasir, as squanderer, 60-91; stationery of, 61; lips of, 62, 91; Bugs Bunny and, 62; paternal instincts of, 64, 67, 74, 84, 90-91; nap time of, 64; screeching voice of, 65; renunciation of terrorism by, 67; annunciation of tourism by, 67; disputed death of, 62-63, 67, 77-80; as sugar daddy, 67-68, 80-81; sober-minded corruption of, 68-72; as no Nelson Mandela, 74; as narcissist, 81; naiveté of, 86; figurative horsemanship of, 88; as okraphobe, 91 Ariès, Philippe, historian of childhood, misconceptions of, 121-122 Arthur, Bea, Golden Girl, as revolutionary icon, 65 Auden, W. H., anti-film sentiments of, 119; pro-Agee sentiments of, 119 Barak, Ehud, as prodigal son, 88; as pianist, 88; as mathematician, 88; as mechanic, 88; hyperactivity of, 88; chilliness of, 88; strategic failure of, 90; as commando, 90 Barghouti, Marwan, Fatah leader, as Arafat rival, 74; good-government leanings of, 74 Berry, Halle, as fertility trendsetter, 143 Blair, Tony, as Clinton pal, 19; as "gay gangster" leading "the gay government of the gay United gay Kingdom," 154 Bonds, Barry, declining market value of, 19 Bouterse, Dési, Surinamese strongman, dictation taken by, 155 Brandeis, Louis, fallen mantle of, 42 Breyer, Stephen, relative worldliness of, 38 Bush, George H.W., as assassination target, 50; as bargaining chip, 77 Byck, Samuel, as would-be Nixon assassin, 50; as hijacker, 50 Ceausescu, Nicolae, PR representation of, 154-155 Cermak, Anton, Chicago mayor, as collateral damage, 50 Cheney, Dick, tame pheasants and, 138 Chirac, Jacques, as exchange student, 50; as HoJo's employee, 50; as Sarkozy father figure, 52; as Sarkozy nemesis, 52 Claus, Santa, persistent nonexistence of, 143 Clinton, Bill, world domination plotted by, 19; as Supreme Court victim, 38; as assassination target, 50 Dahlan, Muhammad, Arafat deputy, CIA ties of, 86; as "crown prince of Gaza," 86; crimped hair of, 86 Doe, Samuel, Liberian dictator, severed ears of, 154; enchanted genitals of, 154 Duran, Francisco Martin, as would-be Clinton assassin, 50; as uphol-sterer, 50 Dutroux, Marc, Belgian electrician, unspeakable crimes of, 128 Einarsdóttir, Jónína, Icelandic anthropologist, on social burden of anguish, 122 Eisenhower, Dwight, as Romney idol, 108-109; grandparental aura of, 108 Fromme, Lynnette, squeakiness of, 50; as would-be Ford assassin, 50 Galbraith, John Kenneth, as Rushdie device, 125 García Márquez, Gabriel, speculative geography of, 124, 126 Garland, Judy, as rock-bottom signifier, 127 Grandin, Temple, on autism, 136; on animal welfare, 136 Graner, Charles, Abu Ghraib ringleader, animal cruelty and, 137 Grisham, John, Indian readership of, 139 Harvey, Raymond Lee, as would-be Carter assassin, 50; starter pistol of, 50 Hazlitt, William, anti-rural prejudices of, 139 Hemingway, Ernest, bum rap endured by, 125; as "hairy-chested old fatty," 125 Hinckley, John, Jr., as would-be Reagan assassin, 19, 50; expanding freedom of, 19; Jodie Foster and, 19, 50 Hitler, Adolf, failing musical of, 154 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, fallen mantle of, 42 Housden, Maria, as runaway mom, 127-130, 133; affected typography of, 128; tantric sex and, 129; as Anna Karenina, 130; as seagull, 130 Hussein, Saddam, as would-be Bush assassin, 50; comic-book opulence of, 68; PR representation of, 154-155 James, Henry, mushiness of, 120 Kael, Pauline, wrongheadedness of, 121; necessity of, 121 Kahn, Louis, architect, Roman influences of, 121; as Philadelphian, 121; bookishness of, 121 Kant, Immanuel, on animal welfare, 134 Karabel, Jerome, sociologist, on "dark side of meritocracy," 122 Karenina, Anna, as friend of Oprah, 130-131; as "hottest broad north of the Kremlin," 131 Keaton, Buster, resurrection of, 119 Kennedy, Anthony, rhetorical indulgences of, 40-42 Kennedy, Ted, as Romney opponent, 112; complacency of, 112; as comeback kid, 112-113; on Mormonism, 116 Kutcher, Ashton, as latter-day Vronsky, 133 Lawrence, T. E., kinkiness of, 125 Lev, Ozrad, as corruption whistleblower, 68; California style of, 72; on sex and Israeli sneakers, 72 MacMurray, Fred, brilliance of, 120 Manilow, Barry, as Tolstoy inter-preter, 131 Marshall, John, common sense of, 38; fallen mantle of, 42 al-Masri, Munib, Palestinian businessman, antique mirror of, 65; as UT alum, 65; infrastructural despair of, 66; as pharmacist, 67 McKinley, William, as dream fodder, 50 Mengistu Haile Mariam, Ethiopian dictator, goodwill beheading ordered by, 155 Mercutio, as foreign-policy commentator, 126 Mobutu Sese Seko, comic-book opulence of, 68; PR representation of, 154-155 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, as Rushdie device, 125 Mugabe, Robert, homophobia of, 154 Mullally, Megan, as literary critic, 131; as pharmacologist, 131 Murdoch, Rupert, as Clinton pal, 19 Nelson, Horatio, as motivational speaker, 44 Nixon, Richard, curdled ambition of, 46; as assassination target, 50 Nofal, Mamduh, Palestinian leader, as poet, 76; as guerrilla, 76; as pirate, 76; op-eds of, 76 O'Keeffe, Georgia, distinctive imagery of, 148 Oppenheimer, Robert, as "shatterer of worlds," 126 Orwell, George, on animal cruelty, 134 Osmond, Marie, as memoirist, 127 Posner, Richard, appellate judge, on Supreme Court indiscipline, 40, 42; on humancentricity, 134, 137-138 Reagan, Ronald, as assassination target, 19, 50; as recessive gene, 148 Rendell, Ed, Pennsylvania governor, as songbird, 108; as presidential handicapper, 108 Romney, George, brainwashing of, 106, 112; Mexican birthplace of, 112; Pancho Villa and, 112; potato-based diet of, 112; as stenographer, 112; as auto titan, 112; deliberative fasting of, 116 Romney, Mitt, Mormonism of, 106-110, 116; Dansonian countenance of, 108; elastic properties of, 108, 116; squeaky-clean slang of, 108; as stand-up act, 110; as Bush classmate, 110; bottom-line Weltanschauung of, 110; PowerPoint and, 110; as dataphile, 112; Ted Kennedy and, 112-113, 116; Olympian exploits of, 113; as banana-bread enthusiast, 114 Roosevelt, Theodore, as assassination target, 50; bulletproof rhetoric of, 50 Royle, Nicholas, novelist, Belgian authenticity of, 128 Rushdie, Salman, Kashmiri roots of, 123; cosmopolitanism of, 123; potato witches conjured by, 124; humor of, 124; on female suffering, 125; equal-opportunity plagues and, 126 Saladin, as Arafat forebear, 60 Sarkozy, Nicolas, French politico, Americanness of, 46-50; as Tony Blair, 46; as Godot, 46, 52; Napoleonic dimensions of, 46; "bloodhound eyes" of, 46; Nixonian mien of, 46; affirmative action and, 46; as Chirac protégé, 52; as Chirac nemesis, 52; as hostage negotiator, 52; as force of nature, 52 Schwarzenegger, Arnold, as Clinton pal, 19 Silberman, Laurence, appellate judge, on Supreme Court indiscipline, 39-42; modest proposal of, 42 Sontag, Susan, as oversimplifier, 139 Souter, David, relative worldliness of, 37 Stewart, Jon, as masculine ideal, 148 Suleyman, sultan, magnificence of, 117; cell-phone reception of, 117 Truman, Harry, as assassination target, 50; truncated nap of, 50 Van Dyke, Dick, eminence of, 154 Von Kloberg, Edward J., III, strongman flack, Ceaus¸escu and, 154-155; Mobutu and, 154-155; Saddam and, 154-155; "Rolodex of evil" maintained by, 154; Toscan qualities of, 154; faux nobility of, 154; velvet-lined capes of, 154; on shame, 154; as op-ed hustler, 155 White, Byron, modesty of, 42 Winfrey, Oprah, Tolstoy and, 130-131 Yourcenar, Marguerite, as "butch lady novelist," 125; as "great gay-male writer," 125; on Hadrian, 125 Zangara, Giuseppe, as would-be FDR assassin, 50; as bricklayer, 50 Benjamin Healy is an Atlantic Monthly deputy managing editor.
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