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Florez faces some strong rivals, including Lieut. Colonel Rubén Dario Paredes, the deputy chief of staff and a moderate who once served as Torrijos' Agriculture Minister. Another potential rival for Florez: Lieut. Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera, Torrijos' cousin, who is considered to be a liberal...
...prepare. The warm-ups are simple, designed to pump blood into muscles so they will bulge angrily--curis with dumbbells, push-ups, chins. For many, it's their first contest, and they're not sure quite what to do, but they know the baby oil is key. Their handlers rub a thin film all over, not too much or they'll look greasy, but enough so the light will catch all the little hollows and ridges. One at a time they come out from the improvised dressing room, and their friends holler...
...work or play, everybody emits wordless signals of infinite variety. Overt, like a warm smile. Spontaneous, like a raised eyebrow. Involuntary, like leaning away from a salesperson to resist a deal. Says Julius Fast in Body Language: "We rub our noses for puzzlement. We clasp our arms to isolate ourselves or to protect ourselves. We shrug our shoulders for indifference." Baseball pitchers often dust back a batter with a close ball that is not intended to hit but only to signal a warning claim of dominance. The twitchings of young children too long in adult company are merely involuntary signals...
...masons say a man will rub enough skin from his hands to make an ankle-length smithy's apron before he masters the art of cutting stone worthy of dressing a cathedral. But in return he is the apple of God's eye, as this stoneworkers' fable illustrates: There was once a mason's wife who enjoyed watching her husband work in the cathedral while she sewed. The bishop knew them both and it became ritual to exchange pleasantries. One day the mason told the bishop his wife was dying and dearly wished to be laid...
Charismatic or not, Bush continued to acquire respect within the White House as a consummate team player. Said one Reagan intimate: "He has enhanced himself. He didn't rub anybody the wrong way." Indeed, Bush has scrupulously avoided filling in for Reagan when to do so might smack of usurpation: for instance, he sits in his own chair-not the President's-at Cabinet meetings. Nonetheless, Bush has remained unusually well apprised of national security details since Reagan's shooting-more current, in fact, than the hospital-bound President...