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...even as the city stuttered back toward normalcy, a troubling question hung over the peace: Would President Charles Taylor keep his promise to leave the country, as the rebels demanded? "He has to resign and leave the country," says General Seyeah Sheriff, the rebels' chief of staff, his manic eyes squirming under his red beret. "As long as he lives in Liberia, he stays President. As long as he doesn't leave, we will attack him." On Aug. 7, Taylor pledged in a letter to congress that he would step down from the presidency on Aug. 11, but he refused...
...were blessed with bright, beguiling actresses and superb roles tailored to their wit and independence. Hepburn got her share: the virginal "lady flyer" in Christopher Strong, irresistibly manic Jo March in Little Women, the small-town social climber in Alice Adams, the cross-dressing Sylvia Scarlett and another terrific haughty-actress part in Stage Door...
...Oliver has an analog in the Democratic Party, it is in party chairman Terry McAuliffe. Both are manic, adroit fund raisers, but while McAuliffe loves the limelight, Oliver shuns it. (Oliver declined to speak with TIME.) McAuliffe was the champ of raising soft money; Oliver does it the hard way, collecting prodigious numbers of $1,000--and now $2,000--checks...
...thought Lewis was very inspiring,” said Ken M. Walczak, a third-year student at Harvard Law School. “He was very inspired and he moved me with the kind of manic intensity that he does on his television show, but he was live...
...Heat blazes onto the scene just as a new wave of emerging musicians are learning lessons from the Sex Pistols and the Clash while taking night classes with ABBA. Though the band shares the manic energy of the garage movement and the infectious melodies of the new wave revival, they’re a little too radio-friendly for the former and too raucous for the latter...