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...students agreed with the article's warning to not come to Harvard "without a Filofax and a world view...
...often as they do in real life, which is to say virtually never. But Hijuelos succeeds in making Ives believable largely by treating his kindness with almost perfunctory matter-of-factness. In unembellished sentence after unembellished sentence, Hijuelos lists Ives' charitable acts as if they were entries in a Filofax: "One of the things he did out of the office was to produce advertising to raise money for different funds, especially for Harlem kids. Working with the local church, Ives headed clothing and food drives..." The result is a character who appears wired to do the right thing...
Clinton, in fact, is earning a reputation as Closer in Chief. If George Bush was famous for getting out the Filofax and phoning world leaders in pursuit of diplomatic goals, it was Bill Clinton who picked up the phone last summer and talked King Fahd of Saudi Arabia into buying $6 billion worth of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas civilian aircraft, and then got the Export-Import Bank to sweeten the deal so that European rival Airbus could not steal it away. Last May the President helped AT&T close a $4 billion deal for Saudi telecommunications modernization. He intervened again...
...home, Mandela will take out his well-thumbed Filofax, find a number, and telephone a colleague to discuss an issue. However, he is not a man who is mired in details. Although Mandela did not even see a television until the 1970s, he understands the importance of mass-media images, and will make gestures of large symbolic content, as when he grasped De Klerk's hand at the end of their recent debate and said he would be proud to work with his opponent -- a man he has publicly labeled untrustworthy. He is gracious, amiable, gentlemanly, ever the host, always...
Today is Valentine's Day. It does not appear marked in either my Filofax or my calendar from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Why is this so? Is it that the English have no patience for love? Do the patrons of the Holocaust Museum fear and tremble before even the mere contemplation of love? Probably not. But perhaps what the English and the American patrons realize is that February is not just a time for expressing a desire for love, but also a time for expressing a desire for justice...