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...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...
...French have always likened their republic to an imaginary woman, Marianne, but have never allowed a real one to govern it. Last week, in a bold attempt to revive France's sluggish economy and give new zest to his flagging Socialist regime, President Francois Mitterrand named longtime political associate Edith Cresson, 57, an aggressive booster of French industry, as the nation's first woman Prime Minister...
Translated by Edith Grossman; Knopf; 285 pages...