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Using their fast-accumulating profits and borrowing against their growing assets, the Tisch brothers built up a chain of nine properties in 13 years. One prize: the opulent Americana hotel in Miami Beach. The hotel industry was booming, but not many operators were skillful managers. The Tisch brothers had a...
Although President Derek C. Bok is a decent, thoughtful man, his greatest fault is not an insatiable yen for fairness. The president is a skillful showman who gets a lot of mileage out of his trash-finding trots through the Yard.
Miller has concocted a fable that reassures several constituencies of readers. Feminists can applaud the pluck of the heroine and the swinishness of the men who oppress her. Moralists can point with satisfaction to the grueling consequences of Anna's licentiousness, the anxiety, humiliation and the trial itself, what she...
The White House team in charge of image making, started under Michael Deaver, is almost too skillful at exploiting the media in order to make policy points. Deaver's successor, William Henkel, orchestrates presidential photo opportunities in which the President acts out little dramas on location, playlets of policy. In...
Some blame Reagan for this phenomenon. However, Reagan is just skillful at capitalizing upon it. His manipulation of the American public into supporting the highly immoral bombing of Libya is an excellent example of this. In contrast, he has had to fight against this phenomenon on the issue of international...