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After a period as clerk for then Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Breyer moved on to congressional staff work. It was his proudest achievement there to be architect of the plan by which Congress deregulated the airline industry in 1978. He has got more mixed grades for his work as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which established the federal guidelines that require judges in all parts of the country to hand down roughly equivalent sentences for comparable crimes. Many judges are furious over the guidelines, which they complain force them to issue sentences that do not take into...
...publisher has readied an extraordinary 350,000 copies, yet Standing Firm does not appear to contain many fresh disclosures. Only the uncharitable tone is striking. Quayle is hardly the first to notice that Brent Scowcroft, not Baker, was the real architect of most of Bush's foreign policy successes. Nor is it news that Kemp can be an aimless talkaholic or that Baker looks out for No. 1. Even Quayle's closest advisers lament that the book lacks anything approaching a Quayle vision of the future. "It's a funny book," said one of them. "It's less...
...sprinkling of average Americans and the President, headlining another health- care forum. The audience of 150 Kansas business owners was treated to the spectacle of the nation's President, looking every bit the Accountant in Chief, doing business math for a Mexican-restaurant owner, a flower-shop owner, an architect, a construction-company owner and a farmer. Their chief concern was how much money they personally would fork over if his plan became law. Regina Jaramillo was worried about insuring the part-timers at her restaurant. "At 7.9%," Clinton patiently explained, "then the real cost -- additional cost -- of doing business...
...time is 1974, and Max, who is fleeing from the wreckage of his first marriage, is a summer-house guest on Lake Como, where he encounters the two characters who will shape his life over the next 20 years: Charlie Swan, a Harvard classmate from the 1950s turned famous architect, whom Max remembers as the campus Lothario; and Toby, a poised and polymorphous teenager who is soon to become Charlie's protege and lover. Yes, there is a romantic triangle at the core of the novel, but it does not play out with the cliches of AIDS-aware contemporary fiction...
...comfort and security. His native Sweden was a peaceful haven form the trumoil that swept much of Europe in the 1930s. Being from a well-off family of financiers, he spent his college years abroad, at the University of Michigan. In his studies, he showed promise as an architect...