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...asset Angell has going for him is his job. Unlike most other baseball writers, who have to cover a certain team game-by-game and are constantly writing for a newspaper or magazine deadline, Angell is not constrained by such daily pressures. As the "senior fiction writer" for the New Yorker, he isn't preoccupied with reporting the details of any single, meaningless midsummer game...
...campaigner, she is a definite asset. In Brooklyn's Brighton Beach, she switched into Yiddish at appropriate moments. While she can be just as unexciting as her husband when delivering a scripted speech, she turns * spontaneous and exuberant when she breaks away from the text, bringing applause from charmed audiences. If she becomes First Lady, she is certain to break the set-in-aspic mold of Nancy Reagan. She has little tolerance for what are known as "silly wife questions," which have always pursued political spouses. When a woman reporter wanted to know, "How do Michael's shirts look...
...doing great until I turned 40." In fact, being 39 was part of the problem. His failings were those of the young -- indecision during critical times, a desire to please too many people, and insecurity about his age. He did not capitalize on what could have been his biggest asset -- the vigor that stood in contrast to the sclerotic dusk of the Reagan era. He bottled up his puckish humor and came off as stiff. He eschewed well-tailored suits that could have turned him into a hip-looking heartthrob with a brain, preferring a conservative blue outfit that made...
...canal treaty, which Reagan backed, would have inflamed Latin American nationalism and anti-American sentiment even more. And General Omar Torrijos, the head of the Panamanian government, said he would have destroyed the canal if the treaty were rejected--which would have eliminated a vital strategic and economic asset. Despite the continued strife in the Middle East, at least on one front, Israel has much less to worry about. Outside of the INF treaty, what like acheivements will Reagan be remembered...
...after leaving Gary Hart's sinking campaign, which he served as deputy issues director. He has helped persuade Jackson to reduce his planned 25% cut in defense spending to a more reasonable 10% and brought the candidate's revenue-raising notions more in line with congressional opinion. His principal asset is that he has an excellent rapport with Jackson. "If you want Jesse to do something," says an Eastern adviser, "it's worth telling Steitz to tell Jackson...