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STEPPING DOWN. NORMAN PODHORETZ, 65, editor and writer; as the editor in chief of Commentary; in New York City. During his 35-year stewardship, Podhoretz transformed the Jewish monthly from a voice of liberal social concern to a promoter of hard-line anti-Sovietism abroad and a basher of all things leftish and countercultural at home. The changes mirrored Podhoretz's own political evolution as one of the most influential-and certainly the most inescapable-of neoconservatives...
...next few weeks parliament must still consider the fate of Gerashenko and vote on the economic stewardship of Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin. In the meantime, the Russian public has already made its views known: as of last week, half the population is thought to be holding savings in U.S. dollars rather than rubles...
...year for New York City Mayor John Lindsay, Panetta returned to California, practiced law and became a Democrat. He won a seat in Congress in 1976 and rose quickly, tangling with Tip O'Neill when he and a group of other Young Turks grew impatient with the speaker's stewardship of the chamber. Though he fell out of favor with O'Neill, Panetta fought back, eventually taking control of the House Budget Committee in 1989. One longtime Panetta advantage has been his wife Sylvia, who ran his district office in California as an unpaid aide while raising three boys...
...Last year, according to recently released disclosure forms, the Clintons chose to hang on to picture frames from Tom Hanks (value: $530); silk neckties from Donna Karan ($255); and sneakers with CLINTON printed on the tongues, from an Arkansas shoe manufacturer ($525). The faux- Magritte-ish painting (detail left) Stewardship by Greg Mort ($1,200) was a gift of the artist and his wife that was presented to the Clintons by their real friends Tom and Cynthia Schneider after the President saw it at their Maryland home...
...Kennedy years that was magic. Jackie was more of that than anyone admitted for a long while. She smoothed the rough Kennedy edges. As much as anyone in those heady days, she grasped the epic dimensions of the adventure. No small portion of the glamour of the Kennedy stewardship that lives on today came from her standards of public propriety and majesty...