Word: lemann
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...State. He suggested himself as one who "can tiptoe between Henry Kissinger and William Rogers." But Nixon wanted to keep that role to himself. He tested Bush by asking for the names of loyalists and disloyalists in the U.N. and related agencies. Bush, according to notes that Journalist Nicholas Lemann has unearthed from the Nixon archives, complied. Then Nixon gave Bush the job he least desired, the one Barbara had warned him against, sweetening his offer with the promise of a Cabinet post after the 1974 elections. Bush told his disappointed wife, "Boy, you just can't turn ( down...
...incentives to encourage businesses to provide jobs in depressed urban areas. Others feel that it is necessary to create work programs that will draw young blacks away from the inner cities, where the underclass culture makes it extremely difficult to break out of the poverty cycle. Nicholas Lemann, a journalist with the Atlantic, describes the migration of unskilled Southern blacks into the inner cities followed by the subsequent migration out by those with steady jobs. He argues that the only path into the American economic mainstream involves breaking out of the ghettos...
Mickey Kaus, writing in the New Republic, argues that the "workfare" programs instituted by many Governors (including Cuomo) should be radically strengthened through a strict requirement that welfare recipients take jobs. Nicholas Lemann, in an incisive series in the Atlantic, analyzes how the migration of poor blacks into the inner cities and the outward migration of middle-class blacks have created a destructive ghetto culture. It can only be broken, Lemann argues, by providing public-works jobs that get underclass blacks out of the ghetto...
...sector as special counsel to Bechtel Corp., the huge engineering firm. The allure was plain: Weinberger was soon making more than $500,000 a year. Yet friends say that he quickly began to miss both public office and his life in the East. Unlike many California conservatives, observed Nicholas Lemann in a penetrating article about Weinberger in the Atlantic, he felt no bitterness "toward the culture of the Eastern liberal Establishment. Weinberger loved that world and considered himself a part of it." The Weinbergers have since sold their California home and purchased one on Maine's Mount Desert Island...
Even with annual "personnel changes," Fickett maintained continuity for the paper, Lemann said, adding. "She worked a thankless job, but she did a good job keeping books...