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When the man who was to become Pope Paul VI was serving as the No. 2 official at the Vatican Secretariate of State back in 1948, he chose shrewd, witty Giovanni Benelli as his right-hand man. Four years after assuming the papal throne in 1963, Paul installed Benelli in his own former job at State, and ever since then Benelli has been the tireless "executive director" of the Vatican...
...approach to the problem than Begin. For instance, he is said to have persuaded Begin not to move toward annexation of the West Bank as long as peace negotiations are in prospect. After that, Dayan wants the matter put to the Israeli electorate in a referendum-a shrewd move, since he is probably right in believing that a majority of his countrymen oppose the surrender of significant portions of the occupied territories...
...infers, largely from Chaucer's poetry, that the author of The Canterbury Tales was shrewd, playful, funny, a mocker, but even-tempered, a religious man capable of what Gardner slyly calls "willing suspension of belief." Though the poet, as a matter of convention, denied all personal knowledge of love, his love poetry was strongly sexual...
...sane businessman have purchased either of the two expansion franchises last year for $10 million each if they were certain financial losers? A baseball team can be used as a tax shelter for rich men like McDonald's owner Ray Kroc or Seagram's magnate Charles Bronfman, but shrewd businessmen do not generally invest in predictably unprofitable enterprises...
Despite the austerity of his lifestyle, Prime Minister Desai is not one of the sadhu-Indian holy men who believe that it is enough to be and not to do. A shrewd political activist, he argues that "things should be done for their own sake. I accept that I will never understand reality, so I concentrate on action, dharma [duty] and commitment." Last week, at his government bungalow in New Delhi, he outlined his views of India's future in an interview with TIME Correspondents Lawrence Malkin and William Stewart. Excerpts...