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...Seldom one to let business impinge on pleasure, Reagan's agenda for the week included no affairs of state...
...holds the steel-rimmed glasses, occasionally manipulating them when Gorbachev pauses to search for a word. The left hand talks. It can lecture, pointing with one finger, or declaim with the palm up, or thump with its edge on the table, karate style, but always quite gently. It is seldom still. Sometimes both hands work together, the fingers clasped, drumming the table for emphasis...
Scientists speculate that the periodic cicada's infrequent but abundant above-ground appearance is a survival strategy. Predators cannot thrive on a dinner that shows up so seldom, and the cicadas' sheer numbers guarantee that even though individuals are easy to catch, many will survive...
...Athenee, which are run for, and often by, the newcomers, continue to blossom in Manhattan. Owners of New York's most fashionable restaurants say that the arrives are influencing American dining habits with their Continental nonchalance. They give a cursory glance at the bottom line on the bill, and seldom practice power lunching and power tripping. On a recent Wednesday, Manhattan's superswank Le Cirque played host to Richard Nixon, Publisher Malcolm Forbes and Chris-Craft Chief Herbert Siegel all at the same time. "They all looked at each other," recalls Italian Owner Sirio Maccioni. "Maybe they were thinking...
...past chapters in the immigration reform saga are anything to go by, the debate over Simpson's measure will be drawn out, convoluted and acrimonious. That is perhaps as it should be. Seldom has so important an issue come so far so often in the legislative process with those concerned with it having so little idea of its potential effects. No one can say for sure whether immigration reform can be made to work, what it might cost and, most important, whether it would ultimately help or hurt the country. In that informational vacuum, politicians, businessmen, labor leaders, minority representatives...