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...looks wise, or at least wised-up, beyond his years, and why not? If anyone should be used to life in the passing lane, it is Bret Easton Ellis, 21. Since his first novel, Less Than Zero, was published in May, it has sold 50,000 copies and made several best-seller lists. Ellis, meanwhile, has become a cult celebrity, showing up on Today, Firing Line and MTV. Not bad for someone who just completed his junior year at Bennington College in Vermont. Ellis' book, set in the affluent Los Angeles suburbs where he grew up, chronicles a few days...
...accommodation with the U.S.S.R., Reagan has often come forward with a deliberate non-starter--a diplomatic initiative that has the twin virtues of public relations appeal and intellectual merit, but that is utterly non-negotiable. In 1981 he sought to defuse the restlessness of Europeans by proposing the zero option: no U.S. missile deployments in Western Europe in exchange for the dismantling of all SS-20 missiles throughout the U.S.S.R. In 1982 he moved to head off the nuclear freeze movement by proposing deep cuts primarily in Soviet warheads. Then in 1983 he went the freeze movement one better...
...Soviets will be shaped by geopolitical factors, from the arcane abacus of nuclear armaments to the broader themes of superpower rivalry and coexistence. But inevitably policies are made by people, whose force of character and personalities can count for as much as their policy views. The zero-sum qualities of Reagan's top advisers have nearly paralyzed the tortuous process of hammering out an arms-control proposal that is acceptable to both Reagan and the Soviet Union. The man charged with shaping a consensus, National Security Adviser McFarlane, has great expertise in arms control and the will to move quarreling...
...totting up profits of his best-selling computer programs, Philippe Kahn, 33, the unconventional founder and president of Borland International, relishes his self-styled role as the "Crazy Frenchman" of the software business. And while other executives bemoan their industry's slowdown, Kahn, whose sales have zoomed from zero in 1983 to an estimated $30 million this year, simply says, "I don't feel the slump...
...White House and the Kremlin could even agree to hold a high-level get-acquainted meeting; Secretary of State Alexander Haig received Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in New York in September 1981. Despite earlier reservations, Reagan took a first step toward arms control in November, unveiling his zero-option proposal to cancel the planned U.S. deployment of Pershing and cruise missiles in Europe if the Soviet Union would dismantle its existing SS-20 missiles aimed at European targets. The offer was rejected, but talks on limiting such intermediate nuclear forces (INF) began the same month in Geneva. That December...