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During his heyday, Carter employed out-of-work actors to call up corporate shareholders to try to sway their votes. "Actors know how to talk and when to listen," he claimed. In 1987 he sold his firm to a British ad agency for $76 million. Carter resigned from the organization in January, a year after learning about the investigation of his dealings. Now he faces up to four years in jail, and his former company has posted steep losses as clients defect to other firms...
Whatever Rafsanjani's intentions, it is Iran's radical opposition, led by former Interior Minister Ali Akbar Mohtashami, that maintains the closest ties with the hostage takers -- and even Mohtashami has only limited sway over them. Last week the Revolutionary Justice Organization, which has three hostages, vowed, "There is no intention to release hostages." Meanwhile, it was disclosed that last month President Bush accepted a phone call from an impostor claiming to be Rafsanjani. Though they do not know for sure, White House officials think the hoax was perhaps perpetrated by Mohtashami's faction to embarrass Rafsanjani...
Because Women's Studies has not yet dried up into a "field," the notion of "strengthening your knowledge" of the subject in a compartmentalized, abstract way holds no sway...
Abstract expressionism, that image-destroying, paint-flinging whirlwind, held sway as America's -- and modernism's -- dominant style during the 1940s and '50s. Though its base was New York City, the abstract-expressionist ethos pervaded every artistic center in the U.S., including the San Francisco Bay area. There, during the late '40s, a flourishing local school had been influenced by the forceful presence of artist-teachers Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko...
...been inextricably linked with this powerful family, whose scions have ruled the country with only two brief interruptions. There was Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister and an early leader of the durable Congress Party, his daughter Indira Gandhi, and her son Rajiv. Such was the family's sway that when Indira was assassinated in 1984, the 40-year-old Rajiv, a reluctant and unproven politician, was rocketed into high office on the strength of one credential: his name...