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Indeed, the princess has been scrutinized by cameras for most of her 20 years, usually from an intrusive position. Many of her modeling efforts show an awkwardness in formal pose that may come partly from inexperience and partly too from something inborn: a sense that she may always be in an adversarial position with the camera. Lineage has given her career impetus, but it is a feeling of irresolution that gives her professional photos much of their impact. Most models work hard to beguile the camera, and Stephanie is clearly learning to do that. But in some shots, it looks...
...also proposed a freeze on strategic offensive arms and a moratorium on the development of space weapons while arms negotiations are under way in Geneva. Almost as an aside, he mentioned that both powers had expressed "a positive attitude" toward a summit. "Confrontation," Gorbachev said, "is not an inborn defect of our relations...
...kept on working with what Ballet Instructor Stanley Williams called a "keen concentration that is inborn." And she prevailed. Her account, with its cool assessments of rivals and careful record of all-important praise, betrays the tough, self-absorbed core that a ballerina must have. But she attributes her success to her profound submission to the will of Balanchine. "All knowledge, all power was his," she writes with total seriousness. "As I saw it, I had no choice but to place all my faith and trust in him." A particularly valuable section recounts in detail what went...
...stable enough to occupy positions of leadership. I do not want to get deep into the science of sexual differences, but it is the male hormone, testosterone, that makes the man, with his drive and macho behavior. The ambitious female politician or leader can come about only by an inborn androgyny, produced by a high level of that male hormone with its attendant aggressiveness. This male trait, admittedly not a very attractive one, is the single aptitude womanly women just do not have, and this is agreed to by both male and female scientists...
...Haile Selassie, the Marxist government of Mengistu Haile Mariam has succeeded in keeping casualties down by activating a relief commission that has already resettled some 10,000 victims and reforested remote, soil-eroded areas. But such efforts can create new problems: for example, after being uprooted, people without an inborn immunity to malaria often prove more vulnerable to the disease. Meanwhile, international relief agencies charge that supplies are falling into the hands of government troops instead of beleaguered civilians. The rains that finally began last month are, in a cruel paradox, a mixed blessing. Weak and shelterless people...