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Managing the human aspect of the Reagan continuity looms as one of Bush's earliest problems. Many Reagan appointees want to move up in the new Administration. Yet Bush has more personal friends and acquaintances than any other political figure in recent memory, and members of his well-tuned campaign staff understandably expect good government jobs. How Bush resolves the O'Hare-style gridlock over appointments will be an early test of his administrative skills...
Burns says that his interest in studying architecture and its history extends back to experiences he had during his youth. "I think [my interest in this field] goes back to childhood experiences. One of my earliest memories is of staying in an old hotel in Birmingham. I'd never been in a building on that scale before. I still remember the enormous corridors. Things like that really do form one's interests...
...findings may please skeptics, but the shroud saga is not a major embarrassment for the Roman Catholic Church. Shortly after the earliest known exhibit of the shroud, in 1354, a French bishop declared it to be a fraud. Through subsequent centuries the church refused to confirm its authenticity. The examination that finally discredited the shroud was conducted with the full blessing of the church, in an unusual alliance between honest faith and objective science. When Pope John Paul was informed of the negative report two weeks ago, he ordered, "Publish...
...Frye's earliest academic concerns as a faculty member at Harvard was to persuade the University to establish a Middle Eastern Studies Center...
...first love. Everyone can recall the earliest flutter of the heart, even (or especially?) French Presidents. "I disappeared each day between the noon and evening meals . . . waiting long hours ((for her)) hidden behind a sand dune," writes Francois Mitterrand about the first time he was smitten, at 15. Mitterrand's poignant reminiscence of pursuing -- and failing to catch -- an unnamed girl during a family vacation in Belgium appears in Their Very First Time, which goes on sale in France this week. The volume includes the romantic flashbacks of 95 other notables, including generals, civil servants and a race-car driver...