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Powell is still a long way from trading in his green Army cap for a blue beret, but he is no Globocop either. It is encouraging that the American soldier who is most willing to work the U.N. into the Pentagon's plans is also the highest ranking...
...problems, although he has a history of coronary trouble and tuberculosis. He did not hint at a falling-out with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, although over the years they have had many disagreements. And he disavowed interest in another high-profile post, although rumors are rife that he longs to cap his political career with the German presidency. Some analysts reasoned that Genscher, Germany's most popular and peripatetic politician, knew he had shepherded his projects of European integration and East-West rapprochement as far as they could go. With the days of checkbook diplomacy ending for a nation strapped...
Such petitions threaten to turn once passive annual meetings into rancorous affairs. Two weeks ago, for example, shareholders at Baltimore Gas & Electric asked the company to "voluntarily cap the total pay and other compensation of its executive officers to no more than 20 times the pay of the average employee of the company...
...royalties. If the Bushes had kept those royalties and not taken a charitable deduction, their tax bite would probably have been higher. But even in 1990, when their reported total income was $452,803, the Bushes paid only 23% of their earnings in federal taxes because of the cap on Social Security contributions and various investment deductions. Even as he has worked to cut the capital-gains tax on investment income, Bush has opposed bipartisan efforts to cut the Social Security tax, declaring that such a move would require "increased taxes around the corner" -- meaning increased income taxes on wealthy...
Sabrina, a 1954 Billy Wilder film, is as tightly constructed, funny and engaging as any good romance. What elevates it above this level is its gifted and star-studded cast. Sabrina proves itself just another jewel in William Holden's cap of acting talent. Here he fits perfectly into the role of a spoiled, dashing, rich heir to a plastics corporation. His brother (Humphrey Bogart) is the more interesting sibling, combining a clever wit held back only by a self-punishing impulse to work hard and keep long hours as the chairman of the company. Enter Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn), daughter...