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...Meese must either ask a panel of three Washington judges to name the counsel or explain why he has not done so. Such an explanation could be ticklish, given the close association between Meese and Deaver. During Ronald Reagan's first term, they constituted two-thirds of the unofficial troika of White House officials who wielded power second only to the President...
...news today than it was when I started. There is no question about it, and the pay is better. It will be interesting to see--now that Dan [Rather] has left, and Tom [Brokaw] has left, and Peter [Jennings] is off at least temporarily--after the all-male anchor troika, whether any of those people are replaced by women...
Regan's organization of the staff has some advantages over the "troika" arrangement that prevailed during most of Reagan's first term. During those years authority was shared by Baker, who has taken Regan's old job at Treasury; Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, now Attorney General; and Michael Deaver, who now heads his own public relations firm. Decision making is faster under Regan, and backstairs White House quarrels have generally stopped...
...Cardinals file toward the chapel, Martini will be seen as the progressive kingmaker facing down a troika of powerful conservative Rome-based Cardinals: John Paul's doctrinal policy chief, JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER of Germany; the head of Italy's Bishops' Conference, CAMILLO CARDINAL RUINI; and Vatican Secretary of State Angelo Cardinal Sodano. The thinking is that their favored candidate would be DIONIGI CARDINAL TETTAMANZI, 71, the former Archbishop of Genoa, who has succeeded Martini in Milan. His philosophical approach is sufficiently unclear that neither the progressive Cardinals nor the doctrinaire are likely to oppose him. In Genoa he spoke...
More important, though, is that throughout the Oasis troika of Definitely Maybe, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, and Be Here Now, it is impossibly easy to forget that you’re listening to something planned and executed, rather than something organic...