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...Bryn Mawr, entered politics late in life, having raised four children before she started law school in Philadelphia at age 40. Her volunteer effort for the Reagan-Bush 1980 campaign won her a high-level appointment to the Agency for International Development in Washington in 1981. Rich, well bred and painstakingly polite, Du Pont hopes to coast in on the President's popularity in the conservative state. She has been coached on tax cuts and the balanced-budget amendment by G.O.P. Supply-Siders Jack Kemp and Newt Gingrich...
...slayings were just another episode in what has become almost routine violence in the southern third of Lebanon, where the largely Shi'ite Muslim population's resentment of both the Israelis and the Christian militia grows by the day. It is an area that has bred small cells of violent fanatics, including, Israeli officials say, adherents of the Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, who claimed responsibility for the embassy bombing. The mounting tension between the occupying Israelis and the Shi'ite population was emphasized by Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin last week when he said...
...course, Lavinia is wicked. And of course, she gets what she deserves, in an upper-class Washington, well-bred sort of way. The stereotypical WASP ice-week floating through life manipulating all comers, Lavinla does exactly what's expected from her marries well, reproduces, continues to make other people's lives miserable She's smart but so shallow that it's hard to tell if she recognizes the in significance of her own existence. After a while, you realize you've seen it before and, what's more, don't particularly care...
...American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Danny Santiago remained something of a mystery man; not even his editor had met or spoken to the young Hispanic author. Last week the reason for his invisibility became clear. He is really Daniel James, 73, a Kansas City-bred, Andover-and Yale-educated Anglo, who was a Hollywood screenwriter before being blacklisted by McCarthyites in 1951. James took on his ethnic nom de plume (Santiago is used in Spanish for James) shortly after he and his wife began a 25-year stint as social workers in predominantly Chicano East Los Angeles...
...from Humphrey's papers at the Minnesota Historical Society, recounts his subject's career in impressive detail, but stumbles when he tries to explain Humphrey's self-defeating diffidence. The answer may lie in the other legacy Humphrey left behind: a certain sweetness, a corny, prairie-bred conviction that folks don't have to be mean and nasty to get what they want. That naiveté was his undoing but also his strength. Early in his career, the politician asserted, wide-eyed, "The proof that God exists is that all men are brothers." Hubert Horatio Humphrey...