Word: grahamism
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...MOST REVEALING MOMENTS IN NORMAN Sherry's massive, ongoing biography of Graham Greene (with the second volume just published, he has now devoted 1,352 pages to Greene's first 51 years) comes at the very beginning, when Greene charges Sherry with compiling a list of his, the novelist's, enemies. Every man has enemies, Sherry replies. By the time the night is over, Greene has composed, with the help of his brother Hugh, his own extensive list of his lifetime's opponents and handed it to his biographer...
That might be said to be the paradoxical trademark of Graham Greene: that he rarely gave himself the benefit of his unending doubt, and that he invariably gave the men he was supposed to hate his best lines. He saw the folly, and the frailty, of everyone around him. Thus adulterers come to feel compassion for the husbands they're cuckolding; victims see the human side of their criminal tormentors; Fowler in The Quiet American comes to mourn the death of his rival in love and opponent in politics (schadenfreude in reverse, you could say). Even when he was writing...
...enjoys. If the G.O.P. leadership were serious about getting the government out of things, it would join the call of Senators Orrin Hatch and Pat Moynihan to partly repeal the exemption. Fat chance. Beyond ``the stated reason that this should be resolved by the parties themselves,'' says Senator Bob Graham, there's also the fact ``that the owners have a significant amount of political clout, and they don't want Congress mucking around in this...
...today launched an attempt to end the six-month-old baseball strike with legislation that would partially repeal the sport's 73-year-old antitrust exemption. Players union head Donald Fehr lauded the bill, introduced by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Bob Graham (D-Fla.). They want to let players mount court challenges -- as is done in other industries -- when owners unite to set labor restrictions. Congressional leaders, including House Speaker Newt Gingrich, are opposed to enacting legislation to solve the strike. Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) are slated...
...disqualification as a congressional candidate. Fujimori's Vice Minister of the Interior was rumored to have connections to drug traffickers after the minister's name turned up in an address book seized during a cocaine raid. ``Fujimori is a politician in the middle of a campaign,'' says Carol Graham, a visiting fellow at the World Bank. ``Nationalism is a nerve that politicians in need of some kind of boost can touch.'' Says former diplomat Manuel Vacula: ``Who does this benefit? Fujimori and the narco-army. Who can say now that the military is a major drug trafficker? It would...