Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Preach, the screens flashed Ronald Reagan's image; at song's end, they bore the message SAFE SEX. Everyone got the message from the concert, which raised $400,000 for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR), and from a comic book about AIDS. "Read this booklet," a handwritten note urged, "then give it to your best friend. It just might save his or her life. It just might save your own. Love, Madonna...
...financial news assiduously, visiting her discount broker every morning and afternoon to keep tabs on the market and making her picks ahead of the professional pack. "I am not all that smart, I've just got some common sense," says Bonner, a former artist and pharmacist. Institutional investors take note: right now Bonner likes oil and pharmaceutical stocks...
Friends and former colleagues think Poindexter was badly miscast at the NSC. "He is a nuclear physicist, an exemplary military man and a brilliant technician," says one NSC veteran. "In other words, an ideal No. 2 or 3." A close observer asserts the admiral "could write a tough computer note to North, but he had trouble resisting Ollie's pleading in person. The combination of personal softness and political inexperience is what did him in." The irony, a Navy colleague remarks, is that "he didn't want to go to the NSC in the first place. He wanted to command...
...said, deserved hearing. The other networks were equally condescending. What television is uniquely fitted to do -- show the candidate speaking for himself -- television disdained doing. Television calls these snippets sound bites, and on all three networks they are getting shorter and shorter: many are just six or seven words. Note how often the person in the news is not even allowed to finish a sentence, but the reporter always gets to finish...
...Secord's companies, North was able to move Iranian arms money, buy planes, charter ships and perform myriad tasks that seemed beyond the abilities of the Government bureaucracies. Says Livingstone: "Ollie was in a white rage all the time over the help the CIA gave him." In a computer note to National Security Adviser John Poindexter, North wondered, "Why Dick can do something in five minutes that the CIA cannot do in two days is beyond me -- but he does...