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Above all, Clinton's deal is shrewd because it is more about economics than nukes. By envisioning new financial and diplomatic exchanges, the agreement aims to moderate the North's behavior. The regime may still fall, but if it does, it may now do so without embroiling the entire peninsula in a devastating...
...York investment firm run by high profile banker Ted Forstmann. Included in the deal is the giant publishing arm of Ziff Communications, which includes other magazines like MacWeek and Family PC, as well as Ziffnet, an on-line service. It's a move by Forstmann, a shrewd dealmaker, to keep pace with rival Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, which controls New York magazine and other media properties, says TIME associate editor Thomas McCarroll. "They have had this rivalry for a long time," says McCarroll. Expect Forstmann to squeeze margins and "in three to four years, sell it," McCarroll says...
...tries earnestly to bridge the spiritual distance between himself and his long-absent sister, legendary in Arizona for making all but impossible runs over ancient, barely visible Anasazi trails in the Grand Canyon. Her descents are a kind of Zen archery, only partly physical. Lopez, who's far too shrewd to bring the fey sister onstage, leaves the reader with a mysterious image: the woman, running on her toes like a deer, glimpsed by rafting vacationers, and then, downriver beyond impassible rock walls, glimpsed again...
What makes the province dilemma unique is Quebec has fallen victim a shrewd political entrepreneur who sees only the glory ahead for himself the founder and first president of a nation a modern George Washington, a Gandhi, a Mandela...
...Tennessee Country (Knopf; 226 pages; $21) by Peter Taylor, the writer of shrewd, laconic short stories whose previous novel won the Pulitzer Prize, revels in such delineations. He writes of a society grounded in family and memory of the Civil War. Nathan's father was named for Confederate general Braxton Bragg, and many years later he gives his own youngest boy the same name. Trudie, Nathan's mother, was the youngest of the three buoyant, beautiful Tucker sisters, all widowed early, who dominate the hero's childhood and the first half of this funny, rueful novel of morals and manners...