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Meese has his weaknesses. He takes on too much work. Although a firm believer in, and drawer of, organization charts, he is poorly organized himself. Moreover, Meese often seems insensitive to political and public relations pitfalls. He has a tendency to hold back when aggressive action is necessary. His lax management of operations, when he gets into that, suggests that he should confine himself to his strong suit: counseling the President. Indeed, Reagan created the troika in the first place partly because good friends persuaded him that Meese could not serve as a single, powerful White House Chief of Staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Men | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

After a drawn-out legal battle sensationalized by the local and national press, Milligan won--for a while. He was found not guilty and committed to a top-drawer mental health institution, just as his attorneys had requested. But ambitious politicians--the same sort who needlessly shuttle off marginal offenders to America's jails today--were out to reverse that decision. A higher court recently recommended that Milligan be sent to maximum security prison where he and his tattered family would be responsible for providing for his desperately needed psychiatric care. And shortly after the "not guilty" verdict, the Ohio...

Author: By Paul A. Englemayer, | Title: Justice's Many Faces | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

...that if geckos are set free by disenchanted owners, the ravenous reptiles will upset the ecological balance. Disenchantment with geckos might come easily. They spend the night making chirping, quacking or barking noises, and besides, says Miami Pet Store Owner Mike Yodice: "They bite like crazy. You open a drawer and they'll clamp onto your hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Leapin' Lizards | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

Charles' shirts come from the top-drawer Turnbull & Asser; the palace thriftily returns them now and again to have the collars replaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic in the Daylight | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

Henry V itself concludes a tetralogy that covers 24 years of English history. The three plays that come first--Richard II and the two parts of Henry IV--are far superior as works of art; but even third-drawer Shakespeare is pretty wonderful stuff. According to the standard view, Richard was a legitimate but incompetent monarch; Henry IV was capable but doomed by having usurped the crown; and Henry V was Shakespeare's conception of the perfect sovereign, a hero-king with legitimate title...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: More Than a Touch of Harry in the Night | 7/17/1981 | See Source »

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