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...Mayor Feinstein prided herself on being a hands-on administrator, often to the distress of other officials. When a foul-up occurred, she was apt to respond with a blistering dressing down or at times even a bout of temper behind closed doors. Once she summoned police chief Cornelius Murphy to her office posthaste...
...left the university in a state of "enervative calm" because, says one professor, "people are too tired to fight anymore." Silber handles the university's board "like Stalin worked the Politburo," in the words of one faculty member. He has reduced faculty and students to tears with his explosive temper and bruising classroom behavior. During the 1970s he dismissed undergraduates who published a student newspaper called bu exposure as "short-pants communists...
...Toughlove Summit. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater used the name to stress that Bush would temper his admiration for Gorbachev's goals with stern talk on Lithuania and Germany...
...Alec Baldwin), is also certifiable. "A blithe psychopath," in the words of Charles Willeford's spiffy source novel, Junior is fresh out of a California prison and primed for Miami vice. His M.O.: robs crooks who have robbed other people. Thinks he's smart; isn't. Has grousy temper; will break the finger of an unsuspecting airport Hare Krishna. Can compose haiku during his heists -- "Breaking, entering/ The dark and lonely places/ Finding a big gun" -- but can't choreograph a decent holdup. Junior is an engaging monster, a clown in his own horror show. As his nemesis, Miami detective...
Mikhail Gorbachev does not like waiting. After trying several times to reach Estonian President Arnold Ruutel by telephone last week, he was in no mood for small talk when he finally got through late Tuesday evening. The Soviet President told Ruutel that he had "lost his temper" over the Estonian parliament's decision two weeks ago that declared "the state supremacy of the Soviet Union to be illegal" in the republic. What exactly did that mean? Gorbachev demanded. If the Estonians no longer recognized the Soviet constitution, what law was operating...