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Boutros-Ghali is not quite a David fighting Goliath, as he likes to portray himself. He came into the job in 1992 only after it was obvious that France would reject Africa's first choice because he didn't speak French. Egypt's cultivated Boutros-Ghali, a Francophile in every way, found he had to campaign furiously for the post. Despite a reputation as a hardheaded fighter for his principles, his age, then 69, and lack of administrative experience were against him. To win over the reluctant U.S., he voluntarily promised not to seek a second term--until he reversed...
...stand was just like he is any other day." And when Petrocelli finishes up, Simpson enters friendlier waters with his own defense attorneys, who will allow him to give his version of his relationship with his ex-wife. If Robert Baker's opening statement is any indication, Simpson will portray Nicole as a volatile, unstable woman who began associating with a hard-partying, dangerous crowd in the final months of her life. As Simpson has said several times, the responsibility for the murders lies "in the world of Faye Resnick...
...Richardson's biography of Pablo Picasso, published in 1991, took the artist from birth to the brink of a masterpiece. In the second volume, A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 (Random House; 500 pages; $55), Richardson begins with the painting that revolutionized 20th century art and goes on to portray the most productive and aesthetically innovative decade of his subject's life. Reading this story is akin to being allowed behind the scenes at an apotheosis...
Brown is a wonderfully understated Albert Einstein in his suave argyle sweater vest and white lab coat, enunciating phrases like "workaday wedding" and "wonderful witticism" with a charming Teutonic lisp. DeLima overacts deliberately, and is spot-on, portraying Retton as if she were on crack, which is the only way to portray...
...such White House aides as George Stephanopoulos and Harold Ickes also developed a political case for a veto: the President would prove he was a man of principle, dedicated to helping the poor. Ickes further argued that signing would hurt Democratic congressional candidates, mostly by enabling Republicans to portray themselves as far less extremist than their opponents contended. The Republicans could claim they had managed to produce a popular reform that even a Democratic President could accept...