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Above all, working for Maxwell is an exercise in survival. His eight-member personal staff, plus two pilots and two chauffeurs, operates like a team of air-traffic controllers. All carry beepers and many have walkie-talkies and cellular phones to track the "Black Hurricane," as some call him. "He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Larger Than Life: ROBERT MAXWELL | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Sergei, now 53, lives with his second wife Valentina in a Moscow apartment building that is reserved for the elite. Transferred from his high-security job in 1968, Sergei serves as a deputy director of a scientific institute. Sergei insists that he wanted his story to be published not to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Father Nikita Khrushchev's Downfall | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

Reagan also touched on the soul of his nation. "Political leadership in a democracy requires seeing past the abstractions and embracing the vast diversity of humanity, and doing it with humility; listening as best you can, not just to those with high positions, but to the cacophonous voices of ordinary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: Good Chemistry | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

Ed Meese makes a lovely target. Broad and a bit blubbery, trusting and more than a shade bumbling, the Attorney General is planted firmly atop the disintegrating ramparts of the Reagan Administration. He is the last centurion of the far right who stands out there, his banner still thrust high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Why Meese Should Leave | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

But Nicky has to face the harsh realities of being poor and "slow" in Pittsburgh. He is a garbage "helper" for a private truck and receives low wages and inadequate benefits. Neighborhood thugs of all sorts find trusting Nicky to be easy prey.

Author: By Seth Weisberg, | Title: St. Dominick's Preview | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

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