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...often tools of self-interest. Sometimes this is obvious--for example, in an outburst of anger or a fit of jealousy. But even such "good" emotions as affection can be instruments of control wielded out of insecurity. (Ever notice how your social failures outside the home can make your mate suddenly more endearing?) And the moral indignation hurled at a spouse--over his or her coldness, rudeness, sloppiness, whatever--may feel high-minded but is often crassly self-serving. The emotional world of the family, Bowen believed, can be a jungle of realpolitik and a source of endless turbulence...
Then his fortunes changed. In July 1992 Clinton tapped Gore to be his running mate, and Knight's career promptly took off. He took a leave from the firm to manage the vice- presidential campaign for Gore. After the election, he became deputy director of personnel for the transition, helping salt Gore loyalists throughout the federal bureaucracy and playing a role in the appointments of top officials like Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt, EPA Administrator Carol Browner and Assistant Energy Secretary Tom Grumbly...
CAPRICORN: You rhyme with "cream of corn," and you taste like it too! Find a mate to complement the palate...
DIED. SVIATOSLAV RICHTER, 82, Russia's incomparable piano-poet; in Moscow. Virtually self-taught until age 21, Richter treated the piano like a soul mate, listening for the romance of Schumann or the fury of Beethoven. Perhaps he could not match Horowitz's brilliance or Rubinstein's panache, but showmanship was never paramount to him. "I don't consider the public," he told TIME. "My only interest is my approaching encounter with the composer...
...DIED. MATE BOBAN, 57, chauvinistic Bosnian Croat leader who spearheaded the creation of the short-lived Croatian statelet of Herzeg-Bosna; of a stroke; in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1993 Boban waged a vicious campaign against Muslims in his drive for an ethnically pure Croatian republic...