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...very convincing, or the firm was desperate. A few days later, I drove out to Waltham for a final round of interviews—late again. I did my usual, trying to convince another set of potential employers that cubicle-dwelling, soul-sucking investment banking is truly my lifelong dream...
...mayor isn't there to sit and worry about keeping his job. He's there to do what's best for the people." So proclaims His Honor, Brian Zimmerman, 12, the mayor of Crabb, Texas (pop. 400, dripping wet). Elected in September 1983, Zimmerman is a lifelong student of government who made just one campaign promise: the incorporation of Crabb to hold off annexation by hovering Houston. The town will vote on the idea this week at the Crabb grocery store owned by his grandmother. If the measure passes, young Zimmerman will be out of a job because Texas...
...good news: it is important for the young to stay lean, but a little heft helps people live longer, according to a federal researcher at the Gerontology Research Center in Baltimore. The bad news: many obesity and cardiovascular specialists say that lifelong leanness is still the desirable goal...
...university abroad, in Edinburgh, where, says a long-time observer of Tanzanian affairs, "he was captured by the ideology of the British Labor Party at the time. He is deeply involved in Fabian socialist principles, which he believed he could graft onto the fabric of Tanzanian village life." A lifelong Roman Catholic, Nyerere was also influenced by the social activism of Africa's Maryknoll missionaries...
...Ronald Reagan, the road to his first meeting with a Soviet leader has been bumpy and twisting. Driven by a lifelong visceral anti-Communism, he campaigned for the White House in 1980 by charging that détente was "an illusion" and that the arms-limitation treaty (SALT II) with the Soviet Union was "fatally flawed." At his first presidential press conference on Jan. 29, 1981, Reagan set a chilly tone. The Soviets, he said, "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat" in pursuit of world domination. Only three months later, the President adopted...