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...themselves for the job. The leading contender is Conservative Michael Heseltine, 57, a former Defense Minister who walked out of the Cabinet in 1986 in a disagreement over the government's attitude toward the European Community, as well as Thatcher's domineering style. He represents a return to the patrician Tory values, including a traditional concern for the poor and disadvantaged. Heseltine has also staked out a more pro-Europe position. And for the first time since Thatcher came to power, voters are looking with favor on Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock...
...guard at the front door admitted a visitor. On the line was Ronald Reagan. In the foyer was Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Both wanted to congratulate Violeta Chamorro on her stunning upset, though clearly Reagan was the happier of the two. With the charm and diplomacy bred by her patrician upbringing, Chamorro told Reagan that she would have to call him back. Then she turned and embraced the Sandinista chief...
During the heyday of takeover lending and junk-bond financing, the patrician investment firm Morgan Stanley was often the butt of ridicule. While more aggressive firms plunged into risky new techniques, Morgan, despite a leading role in corporate takeovers, seemed stuck in its stodgy habit of underwriting stock for blue-chip companies and selling investment-grade bonds. The new breed was playing high-stakes Monopoly, the joke went, while the stuffed shirts at Morgan were playing Trivial Pursuit. But no one is laughing at Morgan's expense anymore. The firm, founded in 1935, is the most profitable on Wall Street...
...hall ashtrays, overflowing with butts, on seemingly every table. The car that the police most often vandalized was a white Mercedes. Although his manner is earthy and direct and his short, dumpy frame and mustache bring to mind a small, playful walrus, Havel still has a touch of the patrician. He is accustomed to center stage and rarely brooks disagreement, even from friends. His marriage has endured a quarter-century and produced one of the century's most touching prison volumes, Letters to Olga, but friends say Havel can be as overbearing to her as to anyone else -- which...
...reviled patrician, suppressed playwright and jailed dissident, the symbol of his nation's revolution takes over as Czechoslovakia's President...