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Reality is nasty stuff, tending as it does toward onrushing appointments for root-canal surgery and tuition bills. So it is extremely sad to report that one of the century's most dependable mechanisms for reality avoidance, the many-times-retold spy thriller whose gray secret is the mole in the British intelligence service, is in deep trouble. This is not really the fault of Frederick Forsyth, whose prose and plotting are no clunkier than those of other literary spy masters who borrowed the mole genre after John le Carré was through with...
...impatience mounting, he quickly signals with a shake of his head for participants to quicken the discussion or drop it. Sometimes in a crisis he will rush the President a prepared statement only to discover that Reagan has already scribbled out sentences in almost the same words. At the root of the Deaver genius is the fact that he always pushes the President to stay his own best self. Says one close watcher: "He knows Reagan can't sell if he doesn't believe." And Deaver instinctively knows when Reagan reaches too far. In 1980 Reagan considered taking...
After the game, Cameroon team members were burning with rage over the officiating, and suggested that racism may lie at the root of the calls against them...
Often the crowd, uninitiated to the finer points of a team's style, decided to root for the underdog--Norway became a local favorite because of the players' tenacity and honest style, and the Cameroons team because of their lively footwork and skill...
...hardly be called a boom, but Western Europe's recovery, still somewhat tentative only six months ago, is now taking root and slowly spreading. Healthy profits in many industries are turning out to be the best possible antidote to the fashionable Europessimism that only a few months ago considered the Continent to be in an irreversible economic decline. With the upswing has come a return of business confidence, at least for the next 18 months. Beyond that period, though, the outlook is clouded by the unpredictable course of the surging U.S. economy, because high interest rates plus towering budget...