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Reagan was nonetheless elated by the Republican success. From Bonn, he placed a phone call to G.O.P. Leader Robert Michel on Capitol Hill. "We pulled it off!" exulted Michel. "That's terrific," replied the President. Said Michel afterward: "At least we have really made a start." Indeed, simply by showing that it could agree in principle on a spending plan, Congress gave a jolt of confidence to the jittery U.S. economy. The Dow Jones industrial aver age shot up more than eleven points the day after the House budget passed. The long-term reaction of business leaders and financial...
...Bernard Cohen. Thomas Professor of the History of Science, plans to re-read Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge and plow through a tome or two of Sartre and Flaubert. But for an undergraduate not necessarily interested in chasing the history of science on every lazy afternoon, he chooses this septet, including three books by colleagues...
...published letter to the editor from House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois was tough: "If I were the editor of Newsweek, I would have rejected the 'rich-poor' theme [of an April 5 cover story on poverty in the U.S.] as simplistic, distorted and unacceptable." Headlined REAGAN'S AMERICA: AND THE POOR GET POORER, the Newsweek story contended that Administration policies were increasing both the total numbers and the suffering of disadvantaged Americans. The article prompted more than 900 letters, "most of them con," Newsweek Editor Lester Bernstein said last week. "We obviously struck a nerve...
...LEFT BANK--"that narrow strip of old houses and older streets along the Seine"--was the center of the intellectual world during the period Lottman describes. The doings and sayings of those who congregated in the cafes of Saint German and Saint Michel, bantered in the salons and worked in every conceivable place took on an importance clearly disproportionate to the quality of what was produced. Politics, and not art, was the object of many a writer's energy...
...Ottoman Turks. The shape of the pastries was derived from the crescent emblem on the Turkish flag, which the Viennese citizens, in effect, symbolically devoured by driving off the Turks. The U.S. boom was started when Vie de France and other stores began making sandwiches with croissants. Says Michel Rebeilleau, manager of Au Croissant Chaud in Washington: "Ten years ago was ze time for ze crepe. Now it is ze time for ze croissant...