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...have just about reached a strategic-arms-reduction agreement, an achievement that will be at the center of next week's Moscow summit. It is a tough subject, but one worth a few minutes' extra attention, and we don't think anyone can tell it better than Talbott, the author of two books on arms control. Not far beyond that story comes Profile, a department we introduced six months ago to provide word portraits of compelling personalities. This week's Profile, written by Washington Correspondent Ted Gup, is about North Carolina's often contentious, always colorful Senator Jesse Helms. Then...
...taken to mean reducing or eliminating criminal penalties for the use and perhaps sale of drugs, while retaining some form of legal disapproval. Such a halfway solution might accelerate the problems that would come from legalization without solving most of those that arise from the current tough drug laws. Author Claude Brown (Manchild in the Promised Land), himself a reformed drug dealer, suggests decriminalizing the sale of drugs by hospitals and clinics in order to "deglamorize ((narcotics use)) and associate it with being sick. That would turn the kids...
QUINN'S BOOK by William Kennedy (Viking; $18.95). The author of the acclaimed Albany trilogy indulges himself in a picaresque romp through 19th century scenes, both real and riotously imagined. And yes, much of the fun occurs in Albany...
That's the magic trick British Author William Boyd has managed in his fourth novel. He tells the life story of a rather prickly film director of genius, one John James Todd, and in doing so describes the making of Todd's silent masterpiece so clearly and vividly that the reader may feel he has seen the nonexistent epic. Titled The Confessions: Part I, it is the first film in a projected trilogy that is to be the realization of Todd's dreams. Imprisoned in Germany during World War I, he read Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, and it took...
...author wrote that she was a bit perturbed by the lack of coverage we were giving her son's--and his teammates'--accomplishments...