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...that I would like to know if there were drugs in my urine as well. I had heard of drugs in banana peels and cabbage and rope, but I had never heard about drugs in urine. I said that in my day such news would have caused a big stir...
Ideas and ideologies do not move Bush. People and their problems do. Domestic issues, in particular, stir him little. One man interviewed by Bush in 1980 for a senior post on his presidential campaign staff asked the candidate what two or three issues mattered most to him. Bush paused, then answered in his own way: he would put the best people in charge and create a superb Government. Colleagues say that while Bush understands thoroughly the complexities of issues, he does not easily fit them into larger themes...
Having changed the rules of Philippine politics, moreover, the self- professed housewife often finds herself judged by the old rules. In restoring her country's freedoms, for example, she is content to go about her business while Marcos loyalists stir up trouble in the streets and Cabinet ministers speak their minds to the 26 daily newspapers in rumor-mad Manila. The resulting appearance of dissentious sound and fury is, she says, simply a sign of the government's self-confident strength: democracy in action. Others take it for weakness...
...agree on a candidate, and the IMF executive board, which represents the 151 member nations, approves the choice by acclamation. This time, though, two rivals -- Camdessus and Dutch Finance Minister H. Onno Ruding -- lobbied for the job. Ruding hit the campaign trail in an especially unbankerly fashion, creating a stir at an IMF meeting in Washington this fall by canvassing for votes. Divided on the choice between Camdessus and Ruding, the European governments left the decision up to the 22-member IMF executive board...
...money to toss around, so the values of the age appear callously self-directed. Yet the plight of the poor is a constant subject of concern and speculation, arising regularly in the platforms of both political parties and in public debate. Below the glacial surface of inactivity, real hearts stir on this issue, but they move nothing. This secret of the age has a secret of its own: we embrace all groups but the poor...