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...five-page personal letter from Steven Ross, chairman and co-chief executive of Time Warner, called Milken "a long-term thinker, not a quick- buck artist." Wrote Ross, who said Milken became a close friend after arranging a 1984 stock offering for the former Warner Communications: "He talks more about illiteracy in math or chronic diseases of the poor or unemployment than about interest rates...
...lesson of these times is that free markets succeed where governments fail, Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is a very voguish thinker. Though his effort to revive his country's punch-drunk economy gets much less attention than the shake-ups transforming Eastern Europe, his monetary program . is every bit as revolutionary. To corset the bloated public sector and turn the economy over to the entrepreneurs, Collor has adopted policies more radical than anything attempted in Brazil in decades -- or perhaps ever -- since taking office on March 15. His approach, says Kenneth Maxwell, senior fellow at the New York...
...boss's loyalty appointments," says a Bush aide. "After John's drinking problem cost him the Defense portfolio, the President felt he owed him." Four of the other members are among the nation's most competent analysts of scientific information. The only first-rate geopolitical thinker is the sixth member, Foreign Affairs editor William Hyland -- and that's the problem. Concedes PFIAB member John Deutch, an M.I.T. energy expert: "Our strengths run to the technical...
Unfortunately, the director cuts short the psychological drama--he was apparently afraid that he would drive away his audience if he lets too much time go by without spilling some blood--and turns a thinker's flick into a straight shoot-em-up. And that's where the movie fails...
...clear that both Washington and Moscow were fortunate to have Pavlov as the Soviet interlocutor. At the second session on the first day of meetings, the Soviet delegation was joined by Komplektov, the Deputy Foreign Minister. Komplektov was well known to veteran American diplomats as a hard-line old thinker. With Aronson, he lived up to his reputation. At lunch between sessions, Komplektov told bad Russian jokes about affairs with the actress Gina Lollobrigida. Across the table, he rehashed old Soviet positions on Central America and lectured Aronson about the sensibilities of small Latin nations condemned by geography to labor...