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...other way. Two years ago, Richard Daley was re-elected to his fifth term with 79% of the vote. His annual budgets are routinely passed with only token opposition. He controls public housing, public schools and the city council. He is cozy with Big Business, is a master at the ward politics of fixing streetlights, and he speaks with a blunt, blue-collar brio that Chicagoans find endearing. "There's never been a [U.S.] mayor, including his dad, who had this much power," says Paul Green, professor of policy studies at Chicago's Roosevelt University. And he's used...
...destiny were reconstructed by Wagener 14 to 17 years after the events he describes. But since Hitler made a lasting impression on millions, it is not farfetched to assume that a disciple who spent hundreds of hours basking in Führerspeak could reproduce the substance and tone of his master's voice...
...Europeans caught between the superpowers, any offer to decelerate the arms race is bound to look attractive. In Helsinki, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze proved himself as much a master of public relations as Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. That was at least partly because Shevardnadze is a new face. But the Soviets helped themselves by holding on-the-record press conferences that received wider play than the background briefings given by U.S. officials...
CAPTURED. Bernard C. Welch Jr., 45, convicted master burglar and murderer sentenced to 143 years to life after the 1980 killing of Washington Cardiologist Michael Halberstam; by police in Greensburg, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, who followed up a routine parking violation and ended a manhunt that began May 14, when Welch and a fellow inmate escaped from a Chicago jail while he was supposedly helping federal agents prevent a breakout planned by others. Found in a stolen car and in an apartment occupied by Welch were seven pistols, seven rifles and $500,000 worth of antiques, indicating that Welch...
...preparing an American Masters program about you. Why still do stand-up when it's official--you're a master? The alternative is Sunset Blvd. You sit in a darkened room every day, and Erich von Stroheim comes in and asks you what episode of The Bob Newhart Show you want to watch. I'd rather keep making people laugh...