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Mary Cunningham's name evokes scenes of boardroom intrigue, corridor passion and mergermaking behind closed doors. For more than three years Cunningham, 32, has remained steadfastly silent about the intimate details of her swift rise and fall at Bendix and her highly publicized relationship with Bendix Chairman William Agee, 46. Now she, along with Fran Schumer, tells her tale in Powerplay: What Really Happened at Bendix (Linden Press/Simon & Schuster...
...have any room in the head?" Aesthetically conservative lawmakers balked at putting the work, with its multicolored brush strokes, next to the sober portraits of Brown's 33 predecessors. More pragmatic pols argued that there was simply no more room in the capitol's main corridor, where pictures are traditionally hung. Last week the joint rules committee settled the issue by voting for the muse: the painting was consigned to a prominent-and solitary-place on the third-floor landing...
...that sense, deserves to be faulted for the loss of the U.S.'s strategic and moral stature. Now, as the first faint cries for his resignation are heard, the heretofore "cool teamplayer" is starting to flail at Congress on Central American policy. A drum beat of Foggy Bottom corridor criticism of the secretary is starting to creep into the papers. This guy may not be so cool after...
...suburbs south of the capital. Rumors had circulated that the army was preparing to move into the area to crush the forces of the Shi'ite organization Amal. According to U.S. officials, Army Commander Ibrahim Tannous also wanted to cut off an eleven-mile-long corridor that was being used to ferry weapons from Druze outposts in the Chouf Mountains to the Shi'ite militiamen. Tannous' offensive quickly stalled, however, and Amal forces seized three army outposts. Government troops retaliated by shelling the densely populated southern suburbs...
...automobile-dominated West, seven major transit systems are planned or proposed. Among the most ambitious cities: Los Angeles, which plans to break ground before the Summer Olympics for an 18-mile, $3.3 billion subway that will follow the densely built, heavily trafficked Wilshire Boulevard corridor, cut through Hollywood and end up hi the San Fernando Valley. The underground will be the centerpiece of an eventual 160-mile network, second in size in the U.S. only to New York City's. Supporters see the rail plan as the last best hope for unclogging the city's fabled 715-mile...