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...dark than I had been able to do at that stage," she says. Keyes--then a low-level foreign service officer in Bombay--became a dinner companion and a friend. When Kirkpatrick received her U.N. post, she thought of Keyes. Kirkpatrick had unusual autonomy from Reagan to handpick her underlings, and fought for the appointment even though the decision to pass over others with more experience upset some officials in the State Department. "They said they had a minorities program, and that it might be discouraging to other minorities," Kirkpatrick says. "But we worked...
...style product selection comes as no accident, according to Madanian. "That's one of the advantages of being a small independent store," Madanian says. "I can handpick everything, so we get a lot of old-fashioned things...
...that the Forbes message resonates among socially liberal, economically conservative Republicans. The Dole campaign knows this: two weeks ago, campaign manager Scott Reed ceded to Governor Pete Wilson--Dole's former opponent in the race--greater influence over the Dole campaign in the state. The Governor will get to handpick the state's delegate slate to the convention in San Diego, something that would potentially permit Wilson to control an enormous bloc of votes should no candidate--or someone such as Forbes--turn up at the convention with a majority of delegates...
...Crimson, criticized for attempting to discredit the BSA and cited repeatedly for freeing speech which questions Black people's abilities, wants to limit the speech of those who would stand up for Black people? And then have the audacity to attempt to handpick Black students' leadership, under the guise of being concerned about "the BSA's hard-earned credibility...
...Nehru was the first to abhor the prospect of a dynasty. He later told an American interviewer, "I am not capable of ruling from the grave. How terrible it would be if I, after all I have said about the processes of democratic government, were to attempt to handpick a successor. The best I can do for India is to help our people as a whole generate new leadership as it may be needed." A full generation later, that time of need has come...