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Lists have been around forever. Noah undoubtedly used one to check off the lucky couples on his boat. Moses went up a mountain and came down with one. Man is an inveterate listmaker. I list, therefore I am. To define is to list. A Partial List of Lists (and the...
The end of the year has become the traditional time of listmaking. (First Forgettable List of the Year: New Year's resolutions.) Lists may express people's instinct for order and compulsion to sum things up, but year-end lists also signify the American obsession with who's numero uno...
Lamar Alexander is used to cleaning up big messes. When he walked into the Tennessee statehouse in 1979, his first chore was to sweep up after the scandal-tainted administration of his predecessor, Ray Blanton. Last week the two-term former Governor and current president of the University of Tennessee...
A Major Difference John Major, 47, Britain's new Prime Minister, is far younger than Margaret Thatcher, but he's more cautious and a lot less tart of tongue. Major borrowed strategy from the "kinder, gentler" playbook, identifying with the Iron Lady's successes while promising to clean up her...
Sorry, No Cigar Doesn't anyone return Fidel Castro's phone calls these days? The aging dictator saw most of his communist soul mates get tossed onto the dustheap of history, and the cash-strapped Soviets may be close to ending their $5 billion annual subsidy. Castro's efforts to...