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Donovan apparently was among Reagan's earliest choices for his Cabinet, but announcement of the appointment was held up by the requirements of the Ethics in Government Act. While other appointees whose wealth consists of diverse holdings can satisfy the act by establishing so-called blind trusts, Donovan was forced to divest himself of his $22 million in Schiavone stock...
...minimalist risk, of course, is chopping away the meat with the fat. Syrie Maugham, the great minimalist interior designer, discarded her earliest works, stark unpainted rooms devoid of furniture and even windows, for what later became her classic minimalist style, rooms done completely in white in which enormous windows played a crucial role. Likewise, Mamet progresses in Reunion to achieve the depth that got lost in Dark Pony, and expands his message to the maximum...
...owing to a sharp deterioration in Iraqi-Iranian relations. Just like any other part of the world, the Persian Gulf is the sphere of interest of the countries located there. No one has the right to interfere in their affairs. It is imperative to bring this crisis to the earliest political settlement through negotiations between the warring sides...
Imbedded in the memory of every living thing, and reinforced from the earliest years by parental instruction and example, are the codes that determine how that creature will act. At birth, as a gift from the most primitive part of his brain, a child knows the elements of survival: he must eat, drink and reproduce. His early life is filled with the imposition of rituals: toilet training, religious instruction, social communication and compromise. By the time he is an adult, he knows most of the games people play: how to dress and cook, shake hands, argue with a colleague, plead...
...landscape like a jet-fueled, chaotic American re-enactment of the 11th century People's Crusade. But politics abhors a silence. That buzzing noise you hear, that distant clattering of political dopesterism now rising faintly in the land, is the sound of the 1984 election campaign at its earliest stage of development. Columnists are making their way briskly through the Democratic ruins to locate politicians still sound enough of wind and limb to try to drive President Reagan out of Washington-which seems almost manically premature, since Reagan is still almost two months away from his Inaugural Oath...