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Colleagues and friends of Professor of Political Economy Glenn C. Loury in interviews this week painted a portrait of an intellectually brilliant, attention-seeking, and socially popular man destined for success, when describing the Kennedy School economist who last week was charged with assaulting a woman...
...nation simply because of a debutante party. She repudiated her promiscuous mother and grandmother, both coarse social climbers who married for money, and retreated into reclusiveness, alcoholism and drug addiction. Alas, the poor little rich girl is now an American cliche, but Gioia Diliberto's carefully researched portrait offers a wealth of revealing social history...
...your common portrait...
...last week a different picture of Reagan began to emerge. The new portrait depicts the President as a hands-on boss who thoroughly involved himself in the contra crusade. In this version, Reagan ordered his staff to keep the rebels' cause alive after Congress banned U.S. support in 1984 and 1985. He carefully monitored the contras' fortunes, asking questions about troop strength, supplies, battlefield activities. He welcomed contributions from one foreign leader and lobbied another head of state to expedite an arms shipment...
...most famous play ever written about newspapermen, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur painted a sardonic portrait of hard-boiled, hardhearted journalists, but it was a picture tinged with affection for the profession's raffish charm. Last week, however, many people found nothing charming about the press's role in the collapse of Gary Hart's presidential candidacy. If no one actually peeped through keyholes, reporters were doing things that couldn't help looking a bit tawdry. A team of journalists staked out a man's home to discover who was spending the night there. A presidential candidate was asked...