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...Lincolnesque features, makes Oakley a poor companion for swapping jokes or, as one old friend put it, ''having him over to the house to get drunk in front of the fire.'' But such intensity has endeared him to colleagues, even those who received wake-up calls alerting them to overnight cables and demanding to know what should be done. ''It's always a little off-putting to get slammed up against the wall at 7:30 in the morning,'' says an admiring Richard Murphy, who worked with Oakley during the Reagan Administration. Oakley's penchant for stating, in his soft...
...Fund. And the IMF will not help until the country has slashed its domestic budget and reduced an inflation rate that may exceed 90% this year. The more Mexico tries to placate its creditors, however, the more it unsettles its people. Earlier this month the price of tortillas quadrupled overnight. Next month the cost of a Mexico City subway ride is likely to increase from one peso to 50. Such developments are not easy on a typical worker, whose real wages have sunk, by one estimate, to their 1967 level. Yet many Mexican officials feel that their diligence in making...
...some of the greatest stars, from Nijinsky to Baryshnikov, have been men, women carry the art form, providing its focus as well as much of its mystery. The appearance of a new, genuine ballerina is one of the exciting events in the theater. Of course she does not materialize overnight. Years of steely determination and self-denial precede the epiphany, and serious dance fans have been following her every step. But the time comes when the image is complete; the name itself takes on magic and exudes the perfume of the theater. With homegrown stars like Cynthia Gregory and Gelsey...
Will you visit Zimbabwe again? Good God no. It's ruined. Under the whites it was an extremely efficient country. It could grow absolutely anything. We had railways and post offices and roads and water that worked. You can't just put that back overnight...
...wounds from a fight like this one don't vanish overnight. Former President Jimmy Carter still bristles at the mention of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who challenged Carter in 1980, fought to the end and - at least in Carter's version of events - cost him a second term. That's 28 years. This one hasn't been over for 28 days...