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...better illustration of this than Chief of Staff Donald Regan '40's candid comments in a recent New York Times interview. "Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follows a parade down Main Street cleaning up," he said. "We took Reykjavik and turned what was really a sour situation into something that turned out really well...I don't say we'll be able to do it [with Iran]. But here we go again, we're trying...

Author: By Joshua H. Henkin, | Title: ArReagance | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...potentially sour note for Harvard is the uncertainty surrounding former assistant Coach Zoran Tulum. The Yugoslav fencer worked with the Crimson as a volunteer a year ago, but has been unable to attain a visa to return to the United States this year...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Snapping the Big Ivy Oh-Fer | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

Back at the stove, Fussell provides wise and workable recipes for items as various as cornfield peas and coconut rice, Owendaw hominy bread, chocolate crunch cookies and sweet and sour Christmas fish. And she provides enough lore to divert the amateur; if history is your dish, this is your book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I Cook, Therefore I Am | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

After a relatively calm summer, the mood of Haiti is turning sour again. Violent antigovernment protests have erupted over widespread unemployment, human rights abuses and, ominously, the founding of a political party by ) followers of the deposed Duvaliers. Adding to the turmoil, Haitians last week recoiled from a more immediate tragedy: an overcrowded ferry sank on the way to the island of La Gonave, with an estimated 180 passengers lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Season of Discontent | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...part because of more than $10 million in losses on securities transactions. In Boynton Beach, Fla., Sunrise Savings & Loan fueled its growth with risky commercial loans on which it could charge high interest rates. Sunrise was reorganized by the bank board last year when its loan portfolio went sour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sinking in a Sea of Bad Loans | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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