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Blackwill "has a kind of cornbread, Midwestern air about him, but that conceals a very shrewd diplomat," said Institute of Politics Fellow Hendrick Hertzberg '65. Hertzberg, a former speechwriter for President Carter and editor of The New Republic, worked with Blackwill in 1979 when Carter visits in Israel to push his Mideast peace plan...
...Thamesside public house and inn, run by friends of the Aubreys'. Rose stumbles into a Saturday-night ruckus in the bar: "All the customers were standing quite still and nobody was saying anything. Their faces were clay-colored and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips...
Personality seemed more important than party last week in two West German state elections, both of which produced surprises. In the Saarland, the country's smallest and poorest state, Oskar Lafontaine, 41, a shrewd and charismatic leftist, led the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to an absolute majority in a state assembly that had been dominated by conservatives for three decades. By contrast, in West Berlin, long a stronghold of the SPD, the ^ winner was a conservative, Christian Democratic Mayor Eberhard Diepgen, 43. Two elements common to both votes were the resurgence of the center-right Free Democrats, thought...
...largely of Las Vegas, where she loses their nest egg in a night, and Hoover Dam, where they have a marital wrangle the scope of which matches the backdrop. But never mind this minimalism. Brooks (who directed Lost in America and co-wrote it with Monica Johnson) is a shrewd, deadpan observer of the secret life of middle-class Americans. He likes to bring their dreams of glorious escape to life, let them taste their new world, then watch them scurry back to the comfortable and familiar. His comedy would be cruel if Brooks were not so good at playing...
...modest man, Zia has proved to be shrewd in his dealings with his military colleagues and with the general public. Partly because of strong support from the U.S. and other Western countries, Pakistan's economy is strong, growing at a rate of 6% a year, and the country expects to profit from a bumper crop of cotton. Zia has set as his goal the creation of an "Islamic democracy," but his vision of Islamization is far more restrained than the one being practiced by the mullahs in neighboring Iran. Zia has remained on correct terms with both Iran and Iraq...