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...strategy and tactics employed by the U.S. team of political advisers better befit the selling of soap than the election of a President." LENNARD B. WEINGARTEN Ferney-Voltaire, France...
...king) and several types of rockfish and cod. The silken black cod also known as sablefish is especially enticing in the pomegranate sauce that glosses it at Le Tastevin. Then there is geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck), a giant clam that can be sauteed with the robust Mediterranean seasonings that befit what might be described as clam-flavored squid...
...supposed Saudi prince, Ibrahim Bin Abdul Aziz Saud Masoud certainly had a name to befit a royal title. But what impressed Lieut. Colonel Oliver North even more was the prince's offer to donate a hefty sum of money to aid the Nicaraguan contras. North was so taken with the prince that he went to Ronald Reagan and National Security Council Adviser Robert McFarlane and told them of the expected donation. As matters turned out, there was no money and no prince: the would-be contra benefactor was Mousalreza Ibrahim Zadeh, an expatriate Iranian swindler who has pleaded guilty...
...president of Harvard, I find myself in a rather touchy situation. While planning our 350th anniversary celebration, to be held a year from September, it occurred to me that it would befit tradition for the other President to make a speech. The White House people were very polite, explaining that the President liked the idea but that they could not confirm a date that far away. Assuming he could come, they added rather pointedly, would Harvard award him an honorary degree? Well. Such awards, of course, are decided by a sacred convocation and are hardly tossed around loosely. When word...
...types who asked for a dollar really could offer you change for your twenty? Who hasn't met the nice suburban couple with their laughing gas-like smiles who sing showtunes as they drive down the highway in their sky-blue station wagons? It sounds like stereotyping, as might befit a director first made famous as Archie Bunker's "Meathead" son-in-law, but this flick is simply too much fun to criticize the Styrofoam characters with any relish. Those who appear in the credits with titles like "Girl in Photo." "Frat Guy," "Pick-up Driver," or "Bus Station...