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...slings and arrows of protest are bound to multiply as the Reagan Administration slashes at the budget at home and stiff-arms the Soviet Union abroad. During a meeting with his economic advisers, Reagan remarked: "I come from a warm climate. I enjoy a warm climate. I'll take a warm climate." Maybe, but by the end of his busy week, he was astonished at how confining his new job is. "This is outside, isn't it?" he plaintively asked as he gazed at the sky during a brief stroll outside the White House. He looked forward...
Whoever wins the struggle will ultimately have to face a stiff challenge from the far left, whose various factions have thousands of trained guerrillas under arms. The best organized of the leftist groupings are the pro-Moscow Communists, led by the Tudeh Party and including a faction of the guerrilla organization Fadayan-e-Khalq. So far, these groups have opposed Banisadr, whom they suspect of being pro-Western. Instead, they have pretended to support the mullahs, whose bungling feeds the popular discontent necessary for an eventual Communist takeover. Former Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh told TIME last week...
Some agencies regularly send their U.S. girls to Europe to work, the way well-to-do parents once sent their daughters to finishing school. Manhattan, where fees and competition are generally twice as stiff as they are elsewhere, is the unquestioned capital of this gaudy world, and it is assumed that those with the right stuff will return there. In the meantime, says Casablancas, whose wars with the established feudalists did a lot to raise both the price and the gross receipts of modeling in Manhattan, "you send a girl over to Europe who's a little bit heavy, clumsy...
...home. They were blunt: "Your lawyer is going to make an ass out of himself, and you too," said one. Get rid of Cucinotta, they urged, and help the DEA finger a bigger pusher in return for leniency. If she refused, they said, she could expect a "stiff sentence" from the judge, who "hates black people...
...kosai-hi has its critics. The government earlier this year proposed to levy stiff taxes on corporate expenditures but then relented under pressure from the business community. Its final solution: tax the portion of kosai-hi that exceeds a corporation's entertainment expenditures in the previous year...