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...addition, Salimi and another cashiered minister belong to an ultraconservative Shi'ite Muslim group that has been critical of Khomeini's policies. The shake-up apparently was engineered by Parliamentary Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who believes that such dissent is divisive. Rafsanjani's maneuver may show that in the rivalry between him and President Seyed Ali Khamenei, Rafsanjani is winning. "He has Khomeini's ear," said a senior Iranian official. "By forcing a Cabinet reshuffle, he just demonstrated who is boss...
...within much stricter and by now familiar limitations. The Book Class, his 27th work of fiction, is, like most of its predecessors, a study of a small group of people who live on Manhattan's Upper East Side, belong to the Knickerbocker and Colony clubs, send their sons to schools such as Groton and Yale (the author's alma maters), and consider the Rockefellers, who came into their billions less than a century ago, slightly parvenu. This time around, Auchincloss is concerned with the female of that rare and resplendent species: twelve women who met once a month...
...child's innocent honesty without indulging in the saccharine coyness of many American kid characters. Several of PS's lines are so simple and yet realistic that the audience gasps in recognition and appreciation. Refusing to be taken away by a strange lady. PS tells Lila. I belong to you not to her," and finally. I won't go I won't I'll kill...
Mondale was introduced by a fit-looking, relaxed and sardonic Edward Kennedy, who lashed Reagan with Boston clubhouse punches. "Send him back to Hollywood, which is where both Star Wars and Ronald Reagan really belong," shouted Kennedy, who went on: "By his choice of Geraldine Ferraro, Walter Mondale has already done more for this country in one short day than Ronald Reagan has done in four long years...
...their boycott, there has been much talk of holding a nationless Olympics, individuals competing as individuals alone. Such a plan is unlikely to work; people would identify athletes by nationality no matter what colors they wore. In fact, nationalism seems an attraction, not an impediment to the Games. People belong to nations as to families. Things only sour when nationalism brings intentions outside sports. When the Russians bloodied the Hungarians in a water-polo match in 1956, one was not witnessing nationalism...