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...Washingtonians have proved adept at the money game. Starting with $5 million in capital in 1987, the company has parlayed that stake into control of 10 companies in 35 countries with about $5 billion in revenues a year. The firm's holdings range from Caterair, America's biggest airline catering concern, to a book distributor and the former aircraft division of military contractor LTV. According to Rubenstein, the firm's well-heeled investors have raked in returns of up to 46% a year...
THESE WORDS ARE FROM THE EPIGRAPH OF ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND THE FOX, a book that Bill Clinton has spoken of fondly as his appreciation of F.D.R.'s style of governance has grown. The President has already proved adept at following the dark side of Machiavelli's injunction: during the campaign, he ignored the & exploding deficit because acknowledging its growth would have meant breaking his promise of tax relief for the middle class. It is tempting to mock him now that he has broken that pledge, but Clinton has at least faced the facts squarely, which is more than...
...addition, Milosevic appears immune to the sting of world condemnation that is often effective in other situations. Like leaders of Nazi Germany and many Communist countries, he is adept at manipulating negotiations and at baffling Western diplomats who view negotiations as a give-and-take process...
...recognize the territory he describes in Closing Time ("Looks like freedom but it feels like death/ It's something in between, I guess") as prime Cohen real estate in which they have already put down stakes. But even they may be puzzled by a reasonably straightforward if not entirely adept version of the Irving Berlin chestnut Always. No fear, however. Even if Cohen tried to go Vegas, Caesars Palace would sound like the City Lights bookstore...
Advocates for abused youngsters contend that such seemingly premeditated acts can be self-defense. People who suffer abuse for a long time can become adept at sensing impending violence. "They are hypervigilant, sensitive to aggressive cues," explains Mones. "They know when someone is going to hurt them even though it may not be apparent to the outside observer." He calls for prosecutors to assign parricide cases to trained child-abuse investigators rather than to regular homicide detectives...