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...that, Morris was a somewhat reluctant recruit for the job. State Department Chief of Protocol Selwa Roosevelt gave the Reagans Morris' book on her husband's grandfather, the start of a planned three-volume work. The Reagans enjoyed the book, and in 1983 close aides like Michael Deaver began an ultimately successful two-year courtship of the author. Morris will not write his book until Reagan leaves office, but his agent is already angling for a publisher. The price rumored for the Reagan chronicle: more than $2 million. INDIANS A Mankiller Takes Over...
...meeting may revolve around French President François Mitterrand. This year France's position at the summit is cloudier than ever because of the installation in March of Conservative Jacques Chirac as Socialist Mitterrand's Premier. Chirac has decided to put in an appearance at the meeting, throwing the protocol-conscious Japanese into a tizzy. One compromise: Chirac will show up at Akasaka only after the opening state dinner, thus avoiding a major problem with head-table seating...
...call the fashion police just yet. As part of its campaign to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 6% of 1990 levels by 2012 (under the Kyoto Protocol), Japan has figured out a way to save energy with style: no tie, no jacket, no buttoning up. Dubbed "Cool Biz" (kuuru bizu), the new casual has officials and executives shedding their signature suits a la Clark Kent this summer and raising office thermostats 5°F, to a wilting 82.4°. Aptly dressed in casual clothes, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi hopes to save the second largest importer of oil 81 million gal. each...
Howard, the team’s master protocol, answers with the perfect synchronization required in the timing-obsessed sport of rowing...
...initial stages, the names of students being sued are not known. Only the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of users illegally using copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks are known...