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...German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain are the only veterans of these gatherings. President François Mitterrand of France and Prime Ministers Zenko Suzuki of Japan and Giovanni Spadolini of Italy are as new to summitry as Reagan. Suzuki is something of an odd man out; unlike the others, he speaks not a word of English. Spadolini was confirmed as head of Italy's 41st postwar government only last week...
Assessing the impact of the spending cuts is made vastly more difficult because of another major departure: the lumping of three dozen-odd education, social-service and community-aid programs (the exact number will have to be fixed by House-Senate conference) into four "block grants" that states can, within broad limits, distribute any way they see fit. The move primarily is a step toward Reagan's philosophical goal of lessening Washington's clout in American society. But it is supposed to save money too; less will be allotted to the block grants than would have been spent...
...early 1960s, however, the Supreme Court decreed that districts within a state must be as nearly equal in population as possible. (An average district should now contain 519,532 people, up from 465,468 in 1970.) Thus the ease with which a state legislature can gerrymander* districts into odd shapes to preserve partisan majorities has diminished greatly. Yet there is still much room for mischief, and both the Democratic and Republican national committees are trying to make sure things go their way. Armed with a $1 million budget, the Republicans are hiring teams of lawyers and computer experts to advise...
Coury grew up in Torrington, Conn., a well-scrubbed factory town set in the Berkshire Hills. In high school he was a football player, student council member, class officer, honor roll regular. He dropped in and out of Fairfield (Conn.) University for a couple of years and then held odd jobs close to home. "He was trying to get his act together," says his brother Nimar. Recently a family friend in Washington, D.C., offered him a waiter's job. One morning he boarded a bus for New York City on his way to Washington. Says Nimar: "Before he left...
...which is mainly a collection of previously published magazine articles that, despite reworking, still lack clear organization. Ideas are too compressed to breathe, and generalizations in one place are frequently neutralized by qualifications elsewhere. In addition, Brooks' bibliography is superficial, consisting mainly of popular books and articles. One odd omission is the name of Tom Wolfe, the nation's preeminent journalist of styles and manners whose term "radical chic" is used without attribution. At its best, Showing Off in America is provocative enough to get readers thinking of themselves as social beings after a decade of bestselling...