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...quintessential Washington insider has accomplished what other lawyers only dream of doing. In an unusual -- but perfectly legal -- arrangement, Strauss advised both MCA and Matsushita on certain matters during the recent $6 billion takeover negotiations. His fee: more than $8 million...
...staff can legitimately take some credit for the G.O.P. victories, they will be unable to avoid some of the blame for the defeats. Even though the election hardly represented a Democratic landslide, the returns do not bode well for Bush. Says former Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss, who is by no means certain that his own party can regain the White House in 1992: "I think he's in deep trouble. You don't recover from the kind of wounds he's suffered in the past few months...
Walter Haas had plenty to spend; he is an heir to the Levi Strauss jeans fortune. He also had a resilient young pitching staff and a local rabbit named Rickey Henderson. To nurture the team to respectability, though, he needed a quick fix and a long view. He already had the first in Billy Martin, a brilliant, volatile field manager. Before he wore out both his welcome and the arms of his starting pitchers (all were shortly out of the majors), Martin , hustled the A's to the play-offs in 1981 and, with his run-and-gun style...
...visible symbol of their faith. Further, it is a cultural artifact representative of its time and thus has historical validity. Finally, it is inappropriate to revise a work of art according to contemporary attitudes. Jews are depicted hardly less stereotypically in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice or Richard Strauss's opera Salome. It is hard to see how any version can ever satisfy all. One possible solution, briefly bruited in 1977, is to revert to Ferdinand Rosner's 1750 version, which makes Satan Christ's principal enemy...