Word: edithe
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...federal-appeals-court judge who was an also-ran on George Bush's list of potential Supreme Court nominees, EDITH JONES, could be in line for another high post. Bush may tap the ultraconservative Texas jurist to succeed Dick Thornburgh as Attorney General. The main stumbling block is that Jones has no trial and administrative experience. One solution would be to persuade Thornburgh's highly regarded deputy, William Barr, to stay on under Jones. But that may be a hard sell because many at Justice consider Barr more than qualified...
...President's May 15 selection of Edith Cresson as Prime Minister, to shake the nation out of its sullen mood, soured after little more than a month. With only a 38% public-approval rating, the bride of high office may be headed for divorce at a point when she has barely assembled her trousseau. French unemployment has reached 9.5%, and the record number of jobless looks as if it will go higher still. Meanwhile immigrant riots broke out in June, even as municipal policemen went on strike -- along with air-traffic controllers, railway workers and doctors...
...White House has a short list of candidates that was compiled and updated when Brennan stepped down. Among the names most often mentioned -- all conservative Republicans -- are Clarence Thomas, 43, a black federal appeals judge from Washington; Ricardo Hinojosa, 40, a Mexican-American federal district judge from Texas; and Edith Jones, 41, a white federal appeals judge from Houston. But Bush has a penchant for surprise nominations -- witness his choice of Dan Quayle as a running mate -- and he might indulge it this time...
...between wife and mistress, a publishing executive experiences moral vertigo in his ordered world; a wife holds her husband up to public ridicule, only to have things turn around as soon as they are alone in the bedroom. Once people like these were the focus of Henry James and Edith Wharton; in recent years Louis Auchincloss and John Cheever have been their chroniclers. Robinson shows a similar mastery of subject and form, and she belongs in that august company...
Since taking office last month as France's first female Prime Minister, Edith Cresson has managed to incite fury abroad with her biting bouche. Shortly after her appointment, she declared on television that Japan was an "aggressor" that "lived in a universe different from ours, a universe of domination." The remarks prompted the Japanese Foreign Ministry to lodge a complaint with the French ambassador, and sparked protests outside the French embassy in Tokyo...