Word: confidantes
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Why was a report that implicated the military in Aquino's death so graciously received by Marcos and so tepidly greeted by the public? Chiefly because Agrava failed to include one important name among the alleged conspirators: Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Fabian Ver, 64, Marcos' cousin...
That would be Priscilla Blore, helpmate of Cabinet Minister Derek Blore, the woman whose doubtful benevolent instincts are commemorated in the book's subtitle. "Kindness," in Author Wilson's mischievous sense, comes to mean an unnatural state of grace. Priscilla is one of those exasperating people who appear...
He is always there, distinct in the shadows of power, never very far from Ronald Reagan's side. But slender, balding Michael Deaver is a man who cares little about presidential policy and often slips out of secret White House briefings, bored. He worries far less about Soviet missiles...
As a vocal advocate of Mitterrand's austerity policies in the previous Cabinet, Fabius was distrusted by the Communists. The son of a wealthy antiques dealer, the balding Fabius is the polished product of France's best schools. Most important, he is a close confidant of Mitterrand'...
Along the way, the "captive poet," as his editor at TIME called him, wrote hundreds of letters-to Father James Harold Flye, his high-church Episcopal mentor at St. Andrew's School in Tennessee, who remained his confidant from the time Agee was ten, to old classmates at Phillips...