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...passion for hegemony lives on in Damascus. Under the shrewd, ruthless, brutally dictatorial guidance of President Hafez Assad, 53, Syria has been making a bid for the past decade to grasp the torch of Arab unity and emerge as the pre-eminent power in the Middle East. By keeping its 62,000 troops in Lebanon ... Syria has become the key player in that fractured country's future ... Syrians consider Lebanon to be part of 'Greater Syria,' a vague concept of territorial grandeur that thrives more in memory than in reality. Indeed, the two countries share more than a millennium...
...self-proclaimed White House intellectual, the Harvard divine, did not grasp the nature of the drama in which he played, and somewhere along his journey he misplaced his soul...
...World) that is trying to raise some $60 million for America's hungry and homeless, are hoping for a turnout of at least 6 million people (each contributing at least $ 10) on Sunday after noon, May 25. The pop charity celebration may find that its reach exceeds its grasp. But should the human chain actually link the land, the organizers may not be too far off in billing it as "the largest participatory event in the history of the world...
Announcing his candidacy on Lincoln's birthday, William Lucas told Michigan voters, "It is within our grasp to make history." Although he trails badly in the polls, Lucas' race has attracted national attention: he is the first black Republican ever to run for Governor. A former FBI agent, the soft-spoken and methodical Lucas was a Democrat when elected sheriff and then executive of Wayne County, which includes Detroit. He drew praise and criticism alike for cutting the county debt by laying off workers and selling a financially hemorrhaging public hospital. An ardent supporter of Ronald Reagan's, he switched...
This is Andrew Field's third crack at the literary and biographical puzzle that was Vladimir Nabokov. The first, Nabokov: His Life in Art (1967), demonstrated the scholar's grasp of the great man's novels, stories and poems. It was a valuable guide through an intimidating maze of themes and plots; its thoroughness made it a high form of flattery. Field's credo, that a writer's "truest and most palpable biography" is his work, rang with disarming idealism. Nabokov must have been impressed and relieved; his disdain for the genre he defined as "psychoplagiarism" was well known...