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...story never really gets going. In the second section, called "Pitch Dark, "Kate travels to Ireland for emotional recuperation and stays at the country home of an American diplomat. Unnerved by a slight accident involving her rented car and a truck on the way from the airport to the mansion, Kate, further depressed by the rainy climate and inhospitable people, decides to leave the country after only two days. Losing her cool, she abandons the car in a vacant lot and departs amidst exaggerated paranoia, fearing that the rental agency will have her apprehended before she leaves. Back...
Darman is unusually sensitive to anything that might be perceived as a slight within the pecking order. An aide recalls that Darman became seriously upset when his name was omitted from the official manifest at the funeral of Nancy Reagan's father in Arizona in 1982. His brilliance and ambition are often translated into a scorching impatience with underlings who are inefficient or who he feels are mediocre...
...McGovern backers. But to accept this cynical wisdom is misguided on several counts. First, if political history--and most recently the New Hampshire primary--has shown anything, it is that as the saying goes, "the opera ain't over until the fat lady sings." McGovern finished only a slight margin behind Gary Hart in the Iowa caucuses, annd it is premature at best to rule him out of the race. Second, and more important, this strategic approach fundamentally distorts the purpose and significance of a primary election...
Speaking just after preliminary results were announced showing him with a slight lead, Hart said, "Fritz Mondale is not ready to claim the title of front-runner again because he's a very humble man. Instead, I think, Fritz, you'd rather be considered a little-known dark horse struggling to get by on $12 million and the AFL-CIO endorsement...
...slight, dark-haired woman, wearing a brick-red dress, spoke in the broad, flat tones of southeastern Massachusetts, recounting with almost clinical detachment her recollections of being gang-raped on a tavern pool table in New Bedford a year earlier. Her testimony last week came on the second day in the trial of her six accused attackers, all charged with aggravated rape, a crime that carries a possible life sentence. It was the first time the 22-year-old woman, whose identity has been protected at the urging of Superior Court Judge William G. Young, had spoken in public about...