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Fringe politics, of either the left or the right, has rarely counted for much in staid and cautious postwar West Germany. But last week, to the shock of the country's political establishment, that dictum was punctured in both directions. In two major cities, West Berlin and Frankfurt, left-wing alliances of Social Democrats and environmental-activist Greens became majority factions. Both cities have also seen a resurgence of ultra-right parties: anti-immigrant Republicans in West Berlin and National Democrats in Frankfurt. The National Democrats, once a refuge of unreconstructed Nazis, gained 6.6% of the vote and representation...
...managed the political fortunes of two Republican Presidents, and directed Bush's 1980 primary campaign. Baker, in fact, represents the rare towering figure who is an exception to the political truism that power depends on physical access to the candidate. Even more than Sasso, Baker has laid down the dictum that almost all decisions are made at headquarters, not in the fuselage of Air Force...
...aside from facile parallels that Huffington draws between Picasso's treatment of his current lover and that woman's appearance in his work, there is no effort made to probe the source of Picasso's artistic wellspring. The biographer has taken Andy Warhol's dictum that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes too seriously, and, angered by Picasso's constant fame, she has tried to steal a few precious moments in the spotlight for herself at the artist's expense...
...announced that he would resign by the end of this month or early August to "accept opportunities in the private sector." Meese had not yet read the 830-page report, which will probably not be released before July 15, but in making his announcement he followed the historic dictum of cagey generals engaged in losing battles: declare victory and leave the field. Whether the chief law-enforcement official of the U.S. is thereby "vindicated," that is, absolved from any question of error, dishonor or negligence, is still very much unresolved...
Most politicians claim not to be influenced by money or favors, professing to follow the dictum of California Assembly Speaker Jess Unruh: "If you can't drink their booze, eat their food, ((have)) their women and vote against them in the morning, you don't belong in this place...