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Henry Kissinger might well ponder the truism: it never rains, it pours. As if he did not face enough criticism, he will soon have to cope with two acid-etched studies of his Middle East shuttle diplomacy. One is The Arabs, Israelis and Kissinger by Edward R.F. Sheehan, excerpts from which will appear this week in the quarterly magazine Foreign Policy; Sheehan is a freelance writer and former State Department press officer who conducts Middle East seminars at Harvard's Center for International Affairs. The other is The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger by Israeli Journalist Matti Golan, which...
...week's end Hereford had still not taken any action, apparently hoping that the Farmington board of directors, scheduled to meet Feb. 9, would reject the vote. Until then, he may well ponder how Founder Jefferson, who was both a libertarian and a slaveholder, would have solved his dilemma...
...bankers across the U.S. ponder a possibly troubled future, they inevitably look for leadership to the Manhattan-headquartered First National City Bank. By embarking upon one daring innovation after another, Citibank has indisputably established itself as the premier pacesetter of U.S. banking. The man who charts Citibank's bold course is a tall, sinewy iconoclast named Walter Bigelow Wriston. An uncommon blend of hard-driving executive and reflective, sometimes cynical intellectual, Chairman Wriston arguably exerts greater influence on American financial methods and mores than any other banker-and perhaps even more than all of them combined...
...Finally we had to say, 'Hey, lady, it's just a story.' " Just a story? Tell that to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who slips away from deliberations to ponder Days of Our Lives; to Sammy Davis Jr., who is such a fan of Love of Life that he made a guest appearance on it; to former Texas Governor John Connally or Andy Warhol, who are among the 10 million followers of As the World Turns, or to Novelist Dan Wakefield, who often bursts into tears at 12:30 when the plangent music of All My Children wells...
...Seventy years later, in 1886, the point of the Frankenstein story was sharpened by Robert Louis Stevenson in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By combining the scientist and the monster in the same personality, a typical Victorian, Stevenson forced his readers to identify and to ponder...