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...sense, the Man of the Year is almost always the President of the United States, no matter who that may be. He accomplishes deeds great and small. He receives credit and blame for things he did not do. He has the most powerful job, the highest visibility and, inevitably, the greatest influence on the news...
...summer-long investigation by a joint congressional committee. Once again, Reagan's statements were contradictory. On several occasions, he denied knowing how the contras obtained their illegal aid. Then he startled listeners by saying of private Nicaraguan funding "I've known what's going on there. As a matter of fact, for quite a long time now, a matter of years . . . It was my idea." The committee was unable to link Reagan to the illegal aid, but the panel's conclusions were damning: "The common ingredients of the Iran and contra policies were secrecy, deception and disdain...
...anything John Maynard Keynes ever dreamed -- struck some experts as voodoo economics (as the future Vice President George Bush christened it in 1980), but the boom rolled on. A doubled national debt of more than $2 trillion? Trade deficits of more than $15 billion a month? What did that matter, when inflation had been cut to about 4.5%, unemployment to 5.9%, and the Dow Jones soared well over...
...satirized in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, whose immediate success on both sides of the Atlantic earned the intended butt of the joke an invitation to lecture in the U.S. At that point, in late 1881, Wilde had published one slim volume of poems to generally hostile reviews. No matter. New York City newspapers were so avid for a glimpse of this exotic flower that they hired a launch to ferry reporters out to Wilde's ship the evening before its docking. The press discovered plenty to report: a large (6 ft. 3 in.), broad-shouldered subject who parried their...
Just before Washington and Moscow concluded their historic accord on intermediate-range arms reductions, the talks nearly snagged over a missing photograph. The matter was hardly trivial. The treaty called for the elimination of Soviet SS-20 missiles, but nobody on the U.S. team had ever seen one. Finally, the Soviets produced a grainy Xerox of a photograph of the missile, along with a promise to send the picture itself later. It has yet to materialize. One possible reason for Moscow's reluctance: the SS-20 is identical to the first two stages of the long-range SS-25, which...