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More important to the substance of foreign policy, says one subordinate, "Haig has a tendency to stir the pot, then turn that problem over to someone else while he finds another pot to stir." Meanwhile, the Secretary keeps the details of foreign troubles largely to himself, giving his aides inadequate guidance on handling those problems to which he is not devoting his efforts. Indeed, the broadest charge against Haig also reflects his greatest strength: he is a doer rather than a thinker. He is a man of action who learned the operational skills of diplomacy from his mentor...
Barrett's statistics and conclusions are bound to stir up debate, but they are, without doubt, the best available estimates, combined with impressively detailed rundowns on most of Christianity's 20,000 subgroups. All this establishes the Anglican missionary as the Linnaeus of religious taxonomy. In fact, the book was so eagerly awaited in church circles that ecclesiastics began to visit Barrett's modest, cluttered offices in Nairobi for years before completion to find out how the numbers were running. A few men of God could not resist the temptation to filch advance copies. Now that...
...deciding to devote his annual report this year to financial aid, and specifically to the knotty question of how much responsibility the federal government should have for subsidizing it. President Bok probably had no idea what a tutor he would stir...
WHEN PRESIDENT Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Abe Fortas in mid-1968 to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States, he had no idea of the controversy he would stir up. But at Fortas confirmation hearings, senators charged that Fortas--a presidential adviser who LBJ had appointed an Associate Justice in 1965--had continued to council Johnson on political matters while sitting on the Court. With his nomination hopelessly stalled in the Senate Fortas withdrew his name from consideration in early October. Within a year, he had resigned from the Court entirely, pressured out by those who accused...
...recommending life-style changes-finding new, nonsnorting friends for example-and helping them to understand the reasons for their habit. Cocaine is not, strictly speaking, physically addictive. But, says Clinic Coordinator Antoinette Helfrich, it has a "reinforcing nature-people want more and more." The self-blackmail contract seems to stir up the resources necessary to break the cycle. The key, says Helfrich, is that "patients have a reason not to do the drug that is stronger than any reason...