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...meaning in his experiences generally fall flat; he has not written a novel. The experiences themselves, though, are vivid enough to provide a convincing picture of a life behind a different veil--the one that shrouds a desert country from Western eyes. Perhaps the reader is not ready to pack his bags and move to the Empty Quarter, but he will surely be glad that Gray...
...public that often regards the White House press corps as a pack of hounds baying at whatever misfortunate occupies the Oval Office, Donaldson can seem the loudest and meanest coon dog of all. He asked Carter whether he was competent to be President. (Donaldson's judgment: no.) He suggested to Reagan that his presidency was "failing" and asked if it was true that he had to be "dragged back to making realistic decisions" by aides. To lesser officials Donaldson can be, if anything, ruder: at a press conference preceding an international economic summit, when Secretary of State George Shultz...
...earned her the title of the funniest woman in the country. When she is host of the Tonight show, which she now is more than anyone else except Johnny Carson, she sometimes outdraws the man himself in the ratings. She is one of the few stars who can still pack houses in a depressed Las Vegas; her twelve-city tour in February was an instant sellout; and last week Geffen Records released her first album in years, What Becomes a Semi Legend Most? Next week she will be the host of NBC's Saturday Night Live, and on April...
Shortly after 4 p.m., the final tallies from the straw poll were announced, and the area was largely deserted. A pack of reporters rushed by to catch a press conference by representatives of former Vice President Walter F. Mondale--the winner of the non-binding vote. The jubilant chants of the organized labor delegates from the convention floor could be heard, as that bloc celebrated its victory in getting one-fourth of the delegates to vote for "jobs" instead of a candidate. In the middle of the rotunda, about 20 supporters of Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) hugged and kissed...
...reason for such success is simple Despite its arrogant presumptions, the broadcast did capture much of "the Harvard experience." "The first time I read Max Weber I thought I might as well pack up and go home," said one of the many anonymous students interviewed on the show. "I think the basic problem with freshman year," another added, "was the fact that I was being taught by many men whom I considered to be clods." Luminaries like then-Senator John F. Kennedy '40, then-Secretary of State Neil H. McElroy '25, Robert Frost, who attended Harvard from...