Who’s WhoVolume 297 no. 5 / June 2006 Adams, John, bipolarity of, 46 Adams, John Quincy, depression of, 46 Al-Timimi, Ali, alleged terrorism conspirator, childhood of, 69; spiritual education of, 72–74; Socratic self-conception of, 78 Ando, Tadao, polished concrete and, 124 Berlusconi, Silvio, myriad influences of, 118 Bobrov, Kiril, Russian soldier, endless hazing of, 89–92; shattered dreams of, 89–92; heavy-metal tastes of, 90 Breathed, Berkeley, cartoonist, as tea investor, 127 Bush, George H. W., voodoo and, 27 Bush, George W., tax-cut enthusiasm of, 28 Bush, Vannevar, as women’s booster, 51 Churchill, Winston, osteopath of, 138 Clinton, Hillary, post-Roe fortunes of, 65–66 Cohen, Rich, as sweetener historian, 126 Coolidge, Calvin, hypochondria of, 46 Crawford, Marion, former Queen Elizabeth governess, gentle tell-all of, 106 Davison, Emily, suffragist, suicide of, 49 Descartes, René, as demolition specialist, 87 Diogenes, loneliness of, 28 Eden, Anthony, osteopath of, 138 Eisenberg, Deborah, rare books of, 109; short haircut of, 109; Proustian sophistication of, 109 Eisenhower, Dwight, depression of, 46 Flaubert, Gustave, spy-novel preferences of, 112 Frist, Bill, red meat served up by, 15 Frost, David, as nude model, 139 Furst, Alan, spy novelist, maddening gibberish of, 110; as Flaubert favorite, 112; plodding eroticism of, 110–112; plotting mastery of, 113 Gantt, H. L., as Taylor disciple, 84; as Soviet economic guru, 84 Garfield, James, depression of, 46 Gates, Bill, as Berlusconi component, 118 Giuliani, Rudolph, pro-choice views of, 65; uphill battle faced by, 65 Goldman, Seth, as tea entrepreneur, 126–128; anti-soda crusade of, 128 Goldwater, Barry, as oral surgeon, 27 Grant, Ulysses S., alcohol dependence of, 46; phobias of, 46 Grayling, A. C., philosopher, as “teledon,” 95; as busybody, 95; nagging ahistorical tendencies of, 99–100 Hansen, Suzanne, former Ovitz nanny, tell-all memoir of, 104–108; Debra Winger and, 106; as food-fight participant, 107 Harriman, Averell, osteopath of, 138 Hayes, Rutherford B., depression of, 46 Henry, Thierry, French soccer player, English allegiances of, 133 Hibarger, Homer, management theorist, workplace illumination and, 85; as breakmaster, 85 Hirohito, domestic alias of, 123 Hirshberg, Gary, organic-yogurt magnate, example set by, 127 Hofstadter, Richard, as biography subject, 118; paranoia of, 118 Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr., eugenics enthusiasm of, 66 Hoover, Herbert, depression of, 46 Huckabee, Mike, Arkansas governor, dieting record of, 40; dark-horse potential of, 40 James, Henry, as New Yorker, 109; as interview subject, 119 Jefferson, Thomas, social phobia of, 46 Johnson, Lyndon, bipolarity of, 46 Johnson, Nora, on desperate housewives, 51–54; on elemental rawness of infancy, 54 Johnson, Samuel, idleness of, 118 Jones, Edgar L., World War II correspondent, on myth of Allied innocence, 96 Jones, Edith, as hypothetical Roe swing vote, 56 Jones, Tylenol, fictional pimp, implausible name of, 117 Kamman, Bill, as pickle expert, 126 Kandinsky, Wassily, cartographic style of, 122 Keeler, Catherine, Profumo paramour, as Homer Simpson forebear, 139; “Austin Powers choppers” of, 139; pathological chattiness of, 139 Kennedy, John F., shallow civil-rights record of, 118 Knight, Zat, English soccer player, as odd man out, 133 Krebs, Maynard G., idleness of, 118 Le Carré, John, narrative fellowship engendered by, 110 Lewis, Edna, as fried-chicken virtuoso, 126 Lincoln, Abraham, psychotic depression of, 46 Lopez, Jennifer, inscrutability of, 116 Luxenberg, Christoph, German Orientalist, warmed-over conclusions of, 116 Madison, James, depression of, 46 Magdalene, Mary, non-prostitution of, 119 Mao Zedong, as organization man, 85–86 Mayo, Elton, management theorist, Freudian influences of, 85; dark humanism of, 85; subtle coercion of, 85 McCain, John, perilous post-Roe path of, 64–65 Miller, Helen Hill, on sex-segregated telescopes, 51 Miyajima, Tatsuo, Japanese artist, indoor starscape of, 124 Mobutu Sese Seko, as agent of disorder, 15 Mondale, Walter, as Reagan tax adviser, 28 Moore, Roy, as stubbornness template, 65 Mullah Omar, as hypothetical cuckold, 138 Munro, Alice, as descriptive genie, 109 Murdoch, Rupert, as Berlusconi component, 118 Mussolini, Benito, pet octopus of, 113 Nestle, Marion, as nutritional realist, 125; on “liquid candy,” 125 Niskanen, William A., economist, as whiz kid, 28; as Starve the Beast skeptic, 28; as deficit Cassandra, 28 Nixon, Richard, alcohol abuse of, 46 Orwell, George, on emotional mechanics of sport, 135 Ovitz, Michael, tell-all nanny of, 104–108; Redford-related enthusiasm of, 104; Mickey Mouse anniversary gift of, 104 Owen, Wilfred, on insupportability of war, 50 Paul, apostle, relatively mundane qualities of, 119 Pelé, as homebody, 135 Pierce, Franklin, depression of, 46 Pinchot, Gifford, as “intrapreneur,” 84 Plato, as management theorist, 87 Poe, Edgar Allan, mysterious death of, 119 Popper, Karl, as falsifiability junkie, 82 Profumo, John, former British official, accepted ruin of, 138; good works of, 138; public silence of, 138; hair shirt of, 138; as anti-appeaser, 139 Proust, Marcel, sophistication of, 109 Putin, Vladimir, anti-hazing pleas of, 91 Reagan, Ronald, magical tax cuts of, 27; as disciplinarian, 27; political prestidigitation of, 27 Rice-Davies, Mandy, on extramarital shyness, 139; quotability of, 139 Romney, Mitt, as health-care pioneer, 44 Roosevelt, Theodore, bipolarity of, 46 Rosenior, Liam, English soccer player, as odd man out, 133 Rounds, Mike, South Dakota governor, abortion ban supported by, 58; plunging poll numbers of, 58 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, as management theorist, 86 Rove, Karl, Roe-related shyness of, 64 Schell, Theodore, broadband expert, on challenge of “last mile,” 130 Scott, Dred, abortion and, 57, 65 Scott, Lee, Wal-Mart CEO, health-care policies of, 38–44; mild-mannered aspect of, 40 Shakespeare, William, as management theorist, 86 Shaw, Maud, Kennedy nanny, genteel tell-all of, 106; Maltese childhood of, 106; Iranian sojourn of, 106 Simpson, Homer, as nude model, 139 Sinatra, Frank, osteopath of, 138 Socrates, merciful end of, 78 Speer, Albert, on effectiveness of Allied airpower, 98 Steinbrenner, George, as Berlusconi component, 118 Stern, Andy, SEIU chief, anti-Wal-Mart strategy of, 38–44; purple motif of, 38 Taft, William Howard, political drift of, 46; obesity of, 46; sleep apnea of, 46 Taylor, A. J. P., on English soccer exports, 133 Taylor, Elizabeth, osteopath of, 138 Taylor, Frederick Winslow, management guru, pig iron inspiration of, 80; on “large, powerful Hungarians,” 80; iffy methodology of, 80–82; foul mouth of, 81; endless successors of, 82–87 Trautmann, Bert, English soccer player, as German POW, 134; broken-neck heroics of, 134 Updike, John, unconvincing stoicism of, 114–115; tin ear of, 115–117; cultural illiteracy of, 115–117 Ward, Stephen, as osteopath, 138; as stealer of swimsuits, 138; suicide of, 138 Wilde, Oscar, idleness of, 118 Wilson, Woodrow, depression of, 46; anxiety of, 46; stroke of, 46 Winfrey, Oprah, as contrition-circuit staple, 138 Woolf, Virginia, epistolary righteousness of, 50–51 Zidane, Zinedine, French soccer player, sublimity of, 135 Benjamin Healy is an Atlantic Monthly deputy managing editor.
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