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...Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61, a former chair of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors from 1982 to 1984 and a frequent essayist on conservative economics, does not try to mask his political leanings, concentrators...
...this is the year of the passive-aggressive campaign, in which candidates mask their true feelings by saying how much they like their opponents. George Bush calls John McCain a "a good man" but then accuses McCain of distorting his tax plan. McCain salutes Bush every chance he gets and then cries foul about "attack ads" Bush has aired. On the Democratic side, Al Gore says he respects Bill Bradley--and then demolishes him for quitting the Senate, "eliminating" Medicaid, voting once for a school-voucher experiment and supporting the 1981 Reagan budget cuts. Except for that, though, he really...
...trainee's Army is like a poor, proud family - all patched-up hand-me-downs and secondhand roses. Nearly everything we touch - our tent, our gas mask, our sleeping bag and our M-16 A2 semiautomatic - is merely gear, to be returned in the same worn, perforated, dinged-up condition it was issued...
...daughter, the Infanta Maria Teresa, is even more summary. Velazquez paints shapes that look so obsolete that they're almost abstract--the massive cornrowing of the brown wig, for instance, and the mysterious, icily translucent lace butterflies that adorn it. He paints paint, or, more exactly, cosmetics: that pale mask flushed with matte pink, a plain little girl--she was a teenager then--propelled onto the international market by Papa's political schemes. Such portraits were made to be sent abroad to the relevant ambassadors, in the hope of arranging a suitable marriage. In due course, in the year that...
...while, his East Hampton doormat read GO AWAY, and his roar and mane were leonine. But underneath that mask of grumpiness was one of the softest and kindest men I've ever met. He was constantly interweaving the lives of the people he knew, making sure they were cared for. Joe could be gleeful as a schoolboy about the success of Catch-22, and he often said how grateful he was for the G.I. Bill--otherwise he wouldn't have been able to afford college...