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...some ways, there isn't. There's no law of nature that says only gifted speakers can be good statesmen. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, never overcame his stuttering. Ghostwriting, then, could be seen as just a way of leveling the political playing field--allowing voters to choose on the basis of issues, not speaking ability...
...house in which Indira Gandhi had served her father as hostess during the early years of independence. It was an era in which Rajiv and his younger brother Sanjay saw most of the world's major political figures trip through: Presidents and kings, commissars and emerging Third World statesmen. One anecdote relates that the young Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama were missing at the house during a visit. The spiritual leaders of Tibetans were found in the backyard playing around a wigwam with the Gandhi boys...
...Nixons' arrival in Peking aboard the Spirit of '76; the spellbinding banquet scene; a hallucinatory ballet; a tender aria for Pat and a hair raiser for Madame Mao. Instead, the new work takes its cue from Nixon's third act, a contemplative series of interlocking monologues that stripped the statesmen of their blue suits and Mao jackets and revealed them for the tired, nervous and scared human beings they were...
Party spokesman Black says that while some "research" on recruitment of soldier-statesmen "can and will be done by the Republican National Committee," there is no central plan to court potential candidates -- at least not yet. Most of the effort, he says, is concentrated in local party organizations, which know "who's over in the Persian Gulf who might make a good candidate...
...Allied statesmen found precious little to cheer about. The plan did show some improvements. Unlike all Iraqi statements since mid-August, it did not propose any form of linkage: no mention of Palestinians or Israeli withdrawal from the occupied West Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights; no talk of a Middle East peace conference. It did not demand any pullout of allied forces from the gulf area, a key point in Baghdad's proposals less than a week earlier. And this time Iraq did agree to a prompt exchange of prisoners. But the plan still conspicuously failed even to mention some...