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WASHINGTON--President-elect George Bush will round out his economic team today by naming Richard G. Darman '64 as White House budget director and Michael J. Boskin as chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, transition sources said yesterday...
Brady, who served eight months as a caretaker senator from New Jersey in 1982, was sworn in two months ago as Baker's successor at treasury. He is a former chairman of the investment banking house of Dillon, Read...
Even before the Democrats select a new party chairman to succeed Paul Kirk in January, Jackson is almost certain to stake his claim as the spiritual leader of the party and its presidential nominee in 1992. He comes out of this campaign with an army of loyalists in every key state, a fund-raising list containing nearly 200,000 names that is the envy of his rivals and a peripatetic speaking schedule that will keep him highly visible. But to solidify his position, Jackson is keenly aware that he must quickly move away from the polarizing postures of the past...
...symbiotic arrangement. The celebrity media fill their space and time; the hype Houdinis manage simultaneously to alert and to anesthetize the moviegoer. At times, they stroke and stoke each other. "Appearances on a lot of shows are designed to impress the media rather than the public," says Warren Cowan, chairman of the Rogers & Cowan agency. "Writers and editors watch the morning shows, say, and decide to check the stories out." For the sake of detente, these natural adversaries must get along to get ahead. "Some journalists say that the publicity machine isn't worth the powder it would take...
Rhode Island's Fernand St. Germain, chairman of the powerful House Banking Committee and a 1987 target of a House ethics investigation, lost his bid for a 15th term to attorney Ronald K. Machtley. Last month a Justice Department document disclosed "evidence of serious and sustained misconduct" in St. Germain's dealings with a lobbyist...