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...invented the other?" That is art at its most self- aggrandizing. Yet how indeed does man come to comprehend anything beyond his immediate world if not through the artist? The Mahabharata is studded with such observations and moves at a pace leisurely enough to allow audiences to ponder them a moment -- but not too deeply -- before being caught up in the next fable, the next tapestry brought to life. If not always intense or profound, the result is in the end hypnotically satisfying...
Then there was Oliver North to ponder -- or ignore, or something. But Reagan was not to be hurried. First came Nancy's birthday. The President presented her at breakfast with an assortment of greeting cards. Nancy whisked off across the Potomac to lunch with her staff at the luxurious Windows restaurant, then came back for a very private dinner with her husband. Oddly, no reporter asked Press Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater what birthday Mrs. Reagan was celebrating. She was, in fact, an elegant and lively 64, er, give or take a year. But birthdays and almost everything else had been pushed...
There importunate foreign callers discover a much weightier Paris Club: a discreet group of officials from 16 industrialized countries who meet regularly to ponder overdue Third World loans owed to their respective governments. The club was started in 1954, when Argentina, faced with a liquidity squeeze, called for an ad hoc meeting in Paris with all of its creditor governments. Since then, the group has evolved into one of the financial world's most important "non-institutions," as one representative called it. The club has no official charter, no staff of its own or even a permanent headquarters. It works...
...doubtful that Pat Nixon ever knit the flag, but the pervasive involvement of every modern President in interpreting the powers granted by the U.S. Constitution is now a hard and often bruising fact of life. If a President does not actually curl up by the fire at night to ponder his copy of the Constitution, in all likelihood he has read some of its phrases during the day and confronted its words in the rush of events...
...Americans struggle to understand how a senseless military mishap in the Persian Gulf cost the lives of 37 sailors, Congress is concerned that the U. S. will be drawn into the Iran- Iraq war. -- Analysts ponder why the Stark, with its array of electronic gadgetry, was unable to defend itself. -- Could the planned 600- ship Navy become a fleet of sitting ducks? See NATION...