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Cronin has noticed no change in her perception of external reality as the result of her foray into the New Age, but the experience has left its mark. "Before going out on a difficult assignment, I sometimes pull that energizing magic crystal out of my bottom desk drawer," she reports. "And I concentrate on the key words for the New Age: surrender and trust...
...wears on and she fields policy questions about nuclear arms, budgets, trade balances, airline safety. Strategic issues will not be escaped as they were by Nancy Reagan, who once joked that she had planned to discuss nuclear disarmament with her husband but decided instead to clean out his sock drawer. Liddy Dole will be expected to know -- and she will...
Bork said he thinks the letter will make a goodsouvenir but does not plan to frame it. "I'll keepit filed deep in a desk drawer," he said
...Boland amendment prohibited. In truth, the amendment, like Congress's whole policy toward Nicaragua, was no model of clarity. But North, according to one participant in his schemes, knew full well what he was doing. According to this source, North kept copies of the Boland amendment in his desk drawer, and once pulled one out and remarked cavalierly, "This is the law I'm violating, and I could go to jail...
...desk in his workroom. The room, kept locked against the incursions of four children, ages 20 to 30, who still come by and "steal my records," also accommodates a broken 17th century organ, a functioning studio-size recording console, piles of music books and tapes, and a secret desk drawer filled with soap filched from hotel rooms around the world. At the moment, Morricone is in the throes of scoring Brian DePalma's upcoming The Untouchables. He works nine-hour stretches almost daily, in part because he is perpetually plagued by the question " 'Will I write again tomorrow?' Whoever says...