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...student council of his high school or college, Wesleyan, at which he earned degrees in English and geology. He also seemed a bit eccentric. As a bachelor, he offered a $5,000 bounty to anyone who could find him a bride and went on the Phil Donahue Show to discuss the contest (he eventually married in 2002). Geeky and lanky, he sported a boyish haircut and during primary debates cited intellectual tomes like The Rise of the Creative Class. For all his talk of balancing the budget and reforming the schools, he also harped on a prosaic matter: overpriced parking...
...Firm) and intelligent actors (Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Meryl Streep). His newest film, The Interpreter, pairs Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn in the first movie ever shot inside the U.N.'s New York City headquarters. TIME's Josh Tyrangiel sat down with Kidman, Penn and Pollack to discuss Kofi Annan, Chris Rock and Princess Leia--and to hear Penn dispense a surprising number of Borscht-Belt-or-better-quality one-liners...
...videotape showing the physicist, apparently in good health, and his wife Yelena Bonner. Said a French observer: "If you don't think the accords matter to the Russians, then just watch television." A senior Western diplomat in Moscow concurred: "These agreements give us the basis to go in and discuss human rights issues with the Soviets. [They] no longer challenge our right to raise the issue. In Eastern Europe, it has been used as a handle for loosening up conditions in some areas, such as family reunification. In that sense, it has worked...
Foreign Minister Botha and other South Africans at the meeting seemed genuine in their willingness to discuss alterations in the present system, though they were somewhat short on specifics. On Friday morning McFarlane reported to President Reagan on the trip. The Administration decided to remain noncommittal until it has a better idea of exactly what the South Africans have in mind. One concern is that Pretoria might appear to be seeking Washington's approval as a way of reducing international criticism of the state of emergency...
...months ago, with memories of this debacle fading, my brother and I began to discuss buying property together again?this time, in Shanghai. China's economy is growing at about 9.5% a year and Shanghai is the epicenter of the boom, yet apartments there still cost far less than in Hong Kong, Tokyo or New York. That gap will close, says Marc Faber, an emerging-markets expert who writes a newsletter called the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report. "Eventually," he predicts, "Shanghai property prices will be higher than prices in New York...