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...ability of the U.S. to bring about???certainly by military pressure alone. Dreams of overthrowing the Sandinistas by force fail every test of a sound policy...
...origin of Roots is the very kind of storytelling Haley lauds. While a boy hi Henning, Tenn., he first learned of the "furthest-back person" his grandmother talked about???Kunta Kinte. Says Haley: "Grandmother would bubble with pride about 'Chicken George' [Haley's great-great-grandfather], but when telling about Kunta Kinte, her voice would fill with awe, like she was talking about a Bible story." Haley's college-educated parents were teachers, his mother in the local elementary school and his father at black colleges in the South. Haley took books out of libraries "like lollipops" but found...
...achieving justice?and Sirica deserves the prime credit for taking those vital initial steps. Whether justice and law in the end will prevail still depends on the investigation by Prosecutor Jaworski and his determined staff, the outcome of numerous individual trials, and what may still be learned?and done about???the President's actions in the many Watergate-related improprieties. Sirica will continue to play a role in that process since he intends to remain an active judge on the bench even after he retires as chief judge in March. Early this year he will issue his ruling on whether...
...those that frame her own view of life. "If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me, it's good," she says. "But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is about???just living and having to get along...
...fraternity house. His loftiest aim for his C.C. course, in fact, is to furnish ideas for the kids to kick around in bull sessions. "The bull session is a very important aspect of education," he contends. As the hours grow late, students "express what they are really thinking about???they educate each other...