Word: elliott
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...captured the mood inspired by Charles and Di at home, which is seldom understood outside the British Isles. Ronald and Nancy Reagan give the presidency a similar kind of glamour. Politics exists, whoever is at the top. The glitter makes the politics more bearable, even enjoyable. Susan Elliott-Booth Lacey, Wash...
...some memorable characters are brought to glorious life. Rigg, as Lady Dedlock, is a model of aristocratic propriety starting to crack as her world threatens to unravel. Suzanne Burden as the heroine, Esther Summerson, is just as sweet, sensible and faintly dull as Dickens portrayed her. Den-holm Elliott, as Esther's kindly guardian John Jarndyce, invests a quiet role with remarkable compassion and grace...
That might be an apt description of García's first six months in office. But if his greatest gains have been psychological, that is no mean accomplishment. "Peru, once the seat of the Inca Empire, is a country with a history," U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams told a House subcommittee in November. "What Alan García has said to his people is that Peru is also a country with a future. He has helped Peruvians to believe that they can better their fate." The test now will be to see if García can convert the positive...
Administration officials insisted that Hasenfus was singing under duress. Said Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams: "I'm confident they are telling him, 'If you say the things we want to hear, you'll be out in no time. If you don't cooperate, you'll be in prison for 30 years.' I hope no one will believe anything Hasenfus says until he can speak freely." Hasenfus was permitted to meet briefly with his wife Sally Jean, who traveled to Nicaragua from Wisconsin. At week's end two coffins containing the bodies of Cooper and Sawyer were unceremoniously dumped outside...
While no American casualties were reported, Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams said the U.S. embassy in San Salvador was virtually destroyed, and the bunker-like compound might have to be razed. The loss would be a painful one, since the embassy served as a nerve center for the U.S.-backed campaign against the guerrillas...