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...left her. They stood side by side, equals and friends and newsmakers, the aspirant to a jumbo settlement and the journalist turned dispenser of social eclat. While ordinary footsore reporters waited outside a restaurant for crumbs of comment, Mizz Liz sailed in to console Ivana in the guise of boon companion, swapped expressions of abiding misery, then hurried out to whip intimate confidences into a souffle of salaciousness and scandal. Not that Ivana felt betrayed -- the whole friendship, like nearly every friendship between gossips and the gossiped-about, was based on mutual exploitation, an exchange of private trust before...
...answer lies in California's increasing national political clout. In the 1992 presidential race, the state will account for 10% of the nation's electoral votes. The next Governor will also strongly influence a reapportionment process that could produce 14 contestable congressional seats in the 1992 election -- a boon for the Republican minority in the House. Moreover, the Governor's mansion in Sacramento served as a powerful presidential launching pad for Ronald Reagan, who once declared that trees cause pollution. Conceivably, Pete Wilson's political career may represent not just the greening of California but also the greening...
Elections are the key to the party's -- and East Germany's -- future. They are scheduled for 1991, as required by the constitution, but the pace of change is pressing the country toward an earlier date, perhaps next spring. For the Communists, ironically, an early vote could prove a boon by keeping potential rivals from organizing effectively...
Instead, Bush could challenge Gorbachev with courage and imagination. He could ask the Soviets to join the West in making enormous, fundamental cuts in defense spending. This would not be naive pacifism but hardheaded self- interest. It could be a boon to the deficit-choked American economy as well as to perestroika. Rather than negotiating trims in a few weapons programs, Bush could propose demobilizing significant portions of each side's military, testing whether Gorbachev would go along with dismantling whole divisions and reconfiguring forces so as to create a less dangerous world...
...Child (Knopf; $50). The first tome in nine years from the nation's queen of cuisine is, expectedly, an instructional masterpiece: precise directions, lavish illustrations, wise little tips on timing and the proper tools. The recipes are mostly Euroclassics with variations, many lightened for health-conscious American palates. A boon for beginners; a must for the more experienced...