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Agents of Innocence, a first novel by Washington Post Associate Editor David Ignatius, demonstrates an admirable flair for transcribing screaming headlines into plausible matters of fiction. Before he joined the Post in 1986, Ignatius, 37, spent three years during the early 1980s as Middle East correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Among the many events he witnessed was the continuing demolition of civilized life in Lebanon by indigenous sects and fractious neighbors. Having reported parts of this complex and in many ways preposterous story, Ignatius has now set about lending these experiences the coherence of make-believe...
...served for ten years in the Ministry of Finance before his 1953 election to the Diet, where his faction now numbers 89. The favorite among businessmen and government officials, Miyazawa is fluent in English. All his brilliance, ironically, may be a political liability in a country where too much flair and genius, openly displayed, is suspect...
When Shere was 14, she became frustrated with her grandparents and joined an aunt and uncle in Daytona Beach, Fla. An intelligent and resilient child with a flair for music, she was a piano soloist at her baccalaureate ceremony at Daytona Beach's Seabreeze High School in 1960. With money supplied by her grandfather, she attended the University of Florida, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in history with honors...
...Schroeder gave a number of reasons for staying out, among them that she could not maintain personal contact with voters. Said she: "I could not bear to turn every human contact into a photo opportunity." Schroeder would have been a long shot, but she could have added color and flair to a bland field...
...snarling for soft drinks. "We just had to do something about Edwin," Patti said, speaking of the incumbent Governor. "We were all tired of the jokes." Edwards' flamboyance, his taste for shooting craps and kissing pretty women, are legend. "There is such a thing as too much flair," Patti went on. "Anyway, Billy Tauzin is a solid family...