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Chirac still summers at his family's farm in Correze, a picturesque but poor district in south-central France. It was there that he developed the easygoing rapport with the common people that allowed him to run for and win his first elected position, a district assembly seat, in 1967. Even today, the tall, slim Chirac is famous in the district for his prodigious memory for the names and family histories of his constituents--and for his gargantuan appetite...
What to make of this extraordinary labor? Coles is an erudite, fiercely moral man. But he is not a gifted interviewer, and, judging by his books, rapport with children does not come easily. His interviews feature the usual dutiful responses of youngsters to earnest adult interrogation. The long set speeches that his children give are cobbled together from fragments of speech, and Coles is honest enough to admit that the process is apt to make an interviewee sound like a miniature version of the author. In his pages, Coles- like Irish children offer much the same insight as Coles-like...
...intolerance from a member of an oppressed group; needless to say, I have many days when I despair of social harmony. Still, it is precisely because I am at bedrock an optimist that I am writing this letter, and because it is in my best vested interest that a rapport between Jews and Blacks once again flourish. Editorials such as Mr. Barron's do nothing toward fostering a dialogue that will bring that rapport to pass. Rafia Zafar Assistant Secretary W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society
...Shultz's rapport with the President has grown, his rivals for foreign policy primacy have been retired one by one from the inner circle. U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and William Clark, a California crony of Reagan's who was National Security Adviser and supposedly the strong man of foreign policy when Shultz took office, have left the Government. Clark's successor, Robert McFarlane, took a front-and-center role in articulating policy for a while before Reagan's November summit meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, but soon afterward he too resigned...
Penn junior Rich Comizio says Berndt's honesty has enabled the silver-haired coach to establish a rapport with his players that has been crucial to the Quakers' success...