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...blue. To much fanfare earlier this year, his campaign launched into general-election mode pledging to make a serious play in all 50 states. The idea was scoffed at by Republicans as a waste of time and money, and lauded by many Democrats as at least a shrewd way to tie up the GOP's resources. But until recently, even as some anxious Democrats started to view the 50-state strategy as an indulgence their candidate could no longer afford, Obama seemed to be following through - even now he has a few paid staffers in Salt Lake City, despite...
...grimly standing to stud. Alas, Georgiana proves incapable for the longest time of producing male children. She is, however, capable of producing gossip. She is a fashion plate, a gambling addict, a drinker, a fiercely loving mother and, even though women did not have the franchise, a shrewd participant in Whig politics. At a certain level, The Duchess is a parable, possibly even a fantasy, about female empowerment...
...Hirst was the de facto leader of the pack and a bad boy at the center of every party. He drank heavily and knew all about the business end of a cocaine straw. A turning point came when he met Frank Dunphy, his genial but very shrewd business manager and empire builder. Dunphy is a 70-year-old Irishman who once handled the books for acrobats, jugglers and "exotic" dancers. In the mid-'90s he agreed to help Hirst straighten out a tax problem. Hirst says Dunphy promised to make him money. "I said, 'You're an accountant - you mean...
...geopolitical dimwit, but he is extraordinarily shrewd when it comes to his own career in the restaurant business. He's an expert listener, overhearing conversations that enable him to rub off his rough edges and advance his interests. He begins as a waiter in a provincial pub and moves on to a posh Prague restaurant, then to service in a high-end spa. That establishment becomes a camp full of often naked Nazi boys and girls, earnestly attempting to create a genetically perfected Master Race. In time, as the war goes badly for the Germans, it becomes a military hospital...
...defenses to stop them. This standard has met some resistance from the chief of the SDI program, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson. In testimony before Congress two months ago, Abrahamson argued that SDI should be ''affordable,'' a more elastic definition. Nitze, a shrewd bureaucratic infighter, persuaded the President to sign a national security decision directive making his criterion official policy. Asked at the TIME conference whether he was trying to skirt Nitze's standard, Abrahamson demurred. He conceded that he might have ''erred'' by using the word ''affordable,'' but he seemed to fudge by insisting that the question...