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...White House Mess, a just-published satire that has titillated Washington by lampooning the self-serving banalities of political memoirs. This capital à clef was written by onetime White House Intimate Christopher Buckley, 33, former speechwriter for Vice President George Bush, as well as the son of Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley, an old friend of the Reagans'. The novel, however, "doesn't seem to have hurt any feelings," admits Buckley. "Maybe I've failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Mar 24, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Herut could be considered fit to govern when its leaders accused one another of being "power-mad cheats, liars, vote riggers, megalomaniacs and, all in all, criminals." At his home on Zemach Street, Menachem Begin kept his own counsel but was reportedly distraught at the Herut bloodletting. --By William E. Smith. Reported by Robert Slater/Jerusalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: A Fight in The Family | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...would succeed A.W. Clausen, the former BankAmerica chairman, as president of the World Bank when his five-year term expired on June 30? For months, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker was touted for the job, as was Labor Secretary William Brock. Last week the guessing game finally ended as the Reagan Administration named Barber Conable, 63, a highly regarded former Republican Congressman from New York, as its candidate to head the international development institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lender in Chief: New head for the World Bank | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...women." But Susan succeeded, and its momentum helped reduce the risk factor for hiring first-time women directors. Randa Haines, 41, won an Emmy for the TV movie Something About Amelia, but was untested in feature films until she was tapped to direct Children of a Lesser God, starring William Hurt. "It's a business of the strong male directorial voice," Haines says, "and it takes people a long time to rethink that image. At first I wondered, Who's that high voice saying 'Action' and 'Cut'? But I soon got used to it all, just by not letting myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Calling Their Own Shots | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...displacement of the Palestinians and their continuing plight leaves very few options to an embittered Arab world. Unfortunately, terrorism is one of them. Perhaps fair treatment of the Palestinians might be the answer to ending this horror. William Bunce New Hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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