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...pages of the New York Times. A former public-relations executive who claimed to have staged the famous 1959 "kitchen debate" in Moscow between then Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev on the merits of capitalism and communism, Safire went on to work in the White House as a speechwriter, before starting a career as a wordsmith at the Times. And a wordsmith he was: in addition to his columns, Safire also penned (a verb I suspect he would have hated) the On Language page in the New York Times Magazine, continuing to write it until shortly...
Whenever FlyBy goes to symphony concerts, it is always distressing to see a slew of gray- and white-haired heads in front of FlyBy—and very few young people. It is also distressing to hear one's hometown classical music station begging for donations, explaining (subtly but not) that their fundraising base is literally dying...
...teller and manager, grasping for his next career. In 1980 he formed Bing Steel and rode the wave of automotive-industry interest in cultivating a base of black and female suppliers. He was, essentially, a bridge between Detroit's growing black middle class and the region's then largely white business élite...
...week to get to Moscow. In Khabarovsk, the Lada, the boxy, no-frills Soviet compact ubiquitous in European Russia, is vastly outnumbered by Toyotas, Nissans and Hyundais on the highway connecting Irkutsk, on the eastern fringe of Siberia, with Vladivostok. "They call the Far East the Land of the White Toyotas," Moisseev says. He added that First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov had been spending a great deal of time in the Far East; in March, Shuvalov had taken part in another anti-crisis forum in Khabarovsk...
...public option to provide affordable coverage if private insurance companies failed to. "It would be a safety net, a fallback mechanism," she says, arguing that a similar idea worked well to stimulate competition in the Medicare prescription-drug program. The idea has found a receptive ear at the Obama White House, where officials believe it could be a way to bridge the ideological divide that has made the public option for the least insured a flash point for some of the loudest arguments over health reform...