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...foreigner, but I am first and foremost a Sony warrior." HOWARD STRINGER, chief executive of Sony, at the shareholder's meeting that appointed him as the first non-Japanese head of the electronics and entertainment giant...
While Maimonides is revered by many cultures, he cannot be usurped by Muslim scholars as "first and foremost" one of their own. Maimonides embodied the Jews' mission to be "a light unto the nations." His multicultural genius enabled him to show the intellectual world the supremacy of the word of God over the philosophy of man. Rabbi Gershon Schusterman, Director The Hebrew Academy Lubavitch Westminster, Calif. Barely Mentioned...
...Dole's foremost challenge this session will be pulling Congress and the White House together on a fiscal 1987 budget that will whack some $60 billion from the deficit and thus avoid the automatic cuts of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings meatax. Addressing the American Farm Bureau Federation in Atlanta last week, he advocated economies across the board, sparing neither social programs nor Reagan's sacred defense buildup. He has also been prodding the White House, which distrusts Dole because of his skepticism about supply-side tax cuts, to be more realistic. Though he insists he will no longer lead...
Healing the rupture still further will be among the foremost priorities of President Reagan next week, when he meets in Tokyo with the heads of six other leading industrial nations at the annual economic summit. Even France, which had previously opposed the inclusion of terrorism on the agenda for the economic meetings, has now agreed to discussions. Reagan's rallying cry will probably run along the lines of a motto that has recently become one of his favorites, a maxim coined by the 18th century British conservative Edmund Burke: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will...
...soon as the summit was announced, the Icelandic government enlisted the services of one of its foremost emissaries, Miss Iceland, who is also the reigning Miss World. Holmfridur Karlsdottir, a blue-eyed nursery-school teacher, was called back from a trip to Singapore to dress up Reykjavík by traipsing around wearing a Reagan-and-Gorbachev-in-Iceland T shirt. "It's fabulous for Iceland!" she exclaimed. "It's the best publicity we could ever get." She was the soul of congeniality, but she adamantly refused to pose in a swimsuit. Prime Minister Steingrimur Hermannsson, on the other hand, showed...