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...manuscript of which was languishing in a Kansas library until she took an interest. She made something of a crusade for Edvard Radzinsky's The Last Tsar, getting what Rubin calls her SWAT team of assistants to promote the book. Most days she lunched at her desk on carrot and celery sticks. Says Doubleday associate publisher Marly Russoff: "It was always a shock for the first few times when you'd pass her in the hall. She's sort of an icon. But she didn't put a distance between herself and other people...
...Death arrives like a pig in a blanket, like a carrot in a pot," says Hector, "salted, salted." Which might make you think that he's not taking the experience very seriously. He is not, however, without fear or selfpity. What makes his experience visible to the reader is that he does not demonstrate his lack of denial, as he says, by non-stop screaming. AIDS leaves him quite clearly a human being, as it does in fact to all of those who contract it, and because we have not known Hector previously, the story is new, we have...
Clinton must convince Moscow of this without much of a carrot. He will not be carrying a new aid package to Moscow, and does not intend to ask Congress for more than the $2.5 billion it voted last year. U.S. policy planning has focused on what the President should say to Yeltsin about the reform of Russia's economy. Reading Zhirinovsky's success at the polls last month as essentially a protest vote, Ambassador at Large Strobe Talbott initially said the Russians needed "less shock and more therapy" and the U.S. was "refining, focusing and intensifying" its efforts to support...
...this week, as dining hall officials audit the amount of food Wasted and post the results on bright orange carrot-shaped charts, dining hall managers and students are finding out what those enormous mounds really mean...
...color of the carrot, we're right up there with the rest of them," he said...