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...policymakers adhered to the chain of command. Powell laid down and enforced the President's guidelines, then let State Department officials, notably the able ex-Navy admiral Prueher, do the haggling. It probably quieted the Pentagon that all the key talkers were former military men. Rice kept discipline and information flowing up and down the line. But the President also heeded the advice of experienced elders. Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft and Bush Sr. all weighed in. Even these heavyweights, however, danced lightly around the new President. Does anyone mind if I call the Chinese, Kissinger demurely asked an aide. Nope...
...What Thoré recognized was the revolutionary in Vermeer - his emphasis on a perfected state of life without external intrusions and noise, his stress on form rather than function and his extraordinary command of perspective. Thoré was writing at the dawn of photography, which helped artists see in a new way. Vermeer, it then became clear, had broken the mold two centuries earlier...
...George J. Church had died of kidney failure on New York's Long Island. In his 25 years here, George was one of the solid rocks on which TIME was built. A master of journalistic compression and clarity, he wrote 126 cover stories, still the record. His ability to command volumes of fact and reams of endlessly incoming reporting was legendary. As deadlines loomed, he deftly recast stories with fresh information, whittling them to fit the constraints of the printed page with nary a loss of substance and ever increasing levels of precision. The final product always appeared effortlessly expert...
...Pops," as he was known, was a burly, intimidating presence, whose command of a bat was widely rumored to send opposing pitchers into pre-game hysterics. He wore his team's odd, cylindrical hat with more than style than one might have thought possible. He led us to the 1979 World Championship, simultaneously leading us in rousing choruses of Sister Sledge's "We Are Family," the unofficial Pirates theme song. He was a palpable presence at Three Rivers, guarding the team, and, I always suspected, the city itself, from unseen dangers...
...Class onboard the downed plane, had told his mother. It got so bad that U.S. officials complained. "We went to the Chinese and said, 'Your aircraft are not intercepting in a professional manner. There is a safety issue here,'" recalls Admiral Dennis Blair, head of the U.S. Pacific Command. "It's not normal practice to play bumper cars...