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...virtually all the talking. According to one participant in the call, the President concluded that if it was necessary to go forward with the assaults for national security reasons, then it would be impossible to explain how he could refuse to order the attacks because of potential political fallout...
Author Stephen Covey, cited in Andrew Ferguson's "Goodbye, Brave Newtworld" [ESSAY, Nov. 16], is on to us. Management consultants will suffer from the Gingrich fallout now that Newt's "thinking" has been compared with the "banalities...broken down and presented as 'steps' and 'affirmations'" in Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. For years, management mavens have been getting away with best sellers, that, like most of us passing through airport customs, have nothing to declare. Fortunately for the authors, few of their readers have ever read my 1984 article in International Management, "Sifting the Nonsense...
...fits the eclat and brevity of Pollock's appearance. But comets eventually swing back on their orbit and return, whereas Pollock was a singular and not a cyclic event, more like a meteor that plows into the earth and wreaks havoc on its climate, filling art's air with fallout. Artists have been defining themselves and their work against Pollock ever since. Yet most of his influence was indirect. Pollock's mature style--based on dripping and flinging skeins of paint onto a canvas flat on the floor, building a web of interaction among line, surface and color from above...
...natural disaster is impacting on politics. "President Arnoldo Aleman is being criticized for the slow progress in getting aid to stricken villages," says Orlandi. "And the Sandinistas are attacking him for not declaring a national emergency." Aleman may want to pay more attention to history: It was political fallout from the 1972 killer earthquake that helped sweep the Sandinistas to power seven years later...
...soft drinks. The average teenage boy chugs 3 1/3 cans a day--more than 110 gal. a year. Girls aren't much better: they guzzle 2 1/3 cans daily. In fact, kids today drink twice as much soda as milk; 20 years ago the reverse was true. The possible fallout: fat kids, rotten teeth and brittle bones...