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David Gergen, who in one way or another has served every president from Nixon to Clinton, offers a shrewd, balanced look at Nixon in his new book, "Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership." Gergen describes Nixon's mysterious bright side/dark side personality - a bully and political crook, much given to anti-Semitic rant, who at the same time was a visionary in foreign policy (China and all of that), far more progressive in domestic matters than anyone remembers, and, before self-destructing, "among the best of modern presidents...
...Just as women can be brutally unfoolable about other women, most men have a shrewd instinct about other men's reliability. That is Al Gore's greatest challenge this week in Los Angeles...
...school district's expert witnesses against LeVake, says, "If you look at the content of his curriculum guide, it's the same thing that five years ago they called creation science. He's just left out the C word." Indeed, creationists have become a lot more shrewd. For years they'd propose antievolution laws and lesson plans brimming with religious language, and for years their cases were struck down on constitutional grounds. But creationists have evolved. Like LeVake, they began co-opting the logic of Darwinists and speaking in a softer voice. In fact, LeVake's case has barely stirred...
...contemporary of Mahler's saw him as "a great terrorist genius who, striving for unattainable goals, meets the fate of Icarus." That's a shrewd appraisal of the passionate composer and conductor during his embattled last years as head of the Vienna Opera--when his visionary compositions and inspired performances were commonly met by savage criticism, often fueled by anti-Semitism. In this penultimate volume of his monumental biography, La Grange locates Mahler at the heart of turn-of-the-century Vienna's flourishing cultural milieu, which, together with Mahler's relationships with many of its major figures, he vividly...
...industry only a decade old, a shrewd manager cannot afford...