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Volcker called on May 19 to ask for a meeting that was set for seven days later. The get-together was originally scheduled for Baker's office in the White House West Wing, but the Fed chairman did not want to be spotted entering the building. Instead, he asked Baker...
During his five days in Canada, Mitterrand went out of his way to be a good guest. He made it a point to arrive in Ottawa, the English-speaking federal capital, rather than Quebec, as De Gaulle had done. After meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, he gave a speech...
Why Libya would want a foothold in the distant South Pacific remains unclear. "There's no plausible explanation in terms of geography or legitimate national interest," a suspicious Hawke said last week. One possible explanation is that Gaddafi simply wants to irritate the U.S. and France, his chief Western enemies...
Ian Frazier, 36, is an employee of The New Yorker, where during the past eleven years he has written occasional humor (Dating Your Mom, a collection, appeared last year) and factual stories, including the five pieces gathered together in Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody. On the surface, it would appear...
Having found a bucolic niche in the heart of midtown Manhattan, Frazier eases himself into a story that is partly a profile of Deren, a guru to flycasters the world over and the "greatest man I know of who will talk to just anybody off the street." The author also...