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...stop a second-term slump before it becomes a long slide to oblivion. The most successful ones in modern times have gone about it in different ways, depending on the forces that were arrayed against them. Dwight Eisenhower, confronting a hostile Congress, made his mark with his veto pen. Ronald Reagan rid his White House of the aides whose incompetence and duplicity had produced Iran-contra, and engaged the Soviet foe he had once called an "evil empire." After Bill Clinton got past impeachment, he did what he could by Executive Order and picked his shots with Republicans on Capitol...
...benefits tomorrow." Even Europe's idealists realized, writes Judt, that "you cannot build a better society on broken men." When he analyzes how the communist regimes of Eastern Europe finally collapsed 16 years later, Judt argues against conventional wisdom: the credit belongs neither to Poland's Solidarity movement nor Ronald Reagan's big defense budgets, but to Mikhail Gorbachev as the true agent of change. The Soviet leader, says Judt, was cognizant of his empire's imploding economy and spooked by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. "If Eastern Europe's crowds and intellectuals and trade union leaders 'won the third...
DIED. MICHAEL EVANS, 61, photographer whose folksy portrait of Ronald Reagan, beaming beneath a worn cowboy hat during his bid for the 1976 G.O.P. presidential nomination, made the covers of TIME, PEOPLE and Newsweek after the Gipper's death last year and whose work for TIME covering Reagan's triumphant 1980 campaign inspired the President to hire him as White House photographer; of cancer; in Atlanta...
...question—what would happen if Ronald Reagan came back from the dead and tried to turn America into a conservative Muslim paradise—is about to be answered. Robert P. Young ’06 is finishing up “Reagan Returns,” a film that shows a reanimated Ronald Reagan attempting to conquer the United States. The film, which is unrelated to Young’s VES coursework, has been his pet project since last year. When an evil Secret Service Agent, played by Nathan D. Turner ’05, reanimates Reagan...
...SECESSIONIST When Ronald Lauder, son of beauty legend Este Lauder, opened the Neue Galerie on New York City's Upper East Side, he knew he was sharing his love of Viennese art and design with the world, but he probably didn't think he would be setting a fashion trend. The Wiener Werksttte and the Secessionist movement that came out of Vienna in the early 20th century are influencing fashion and home design. Fabric manufacturer Maharam has reissued the fabrics of Dagobert Peche, and young designers like Proenza Schouler are picking up on the colors and graphic detail...