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...very impressed by a speech made by a sister of a man killed in the coup over a week ago. Her personal account was clear and interesting. It showed personal feeling, but was absent of the bitter over-emotionalism that can bias an argument and make it lose credibility. Most of the other speakers, on the other hand, were practically hysterical, lashing at so many different things, that the main points were almost lost. Was this a rally against Reagan the racist? Was it a rally in the name of complete revolution? I began to lose track...
Seven of the nine honorees attended the ceremony. Absent was artist Georgia O'Keeffe, a painter whose works hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney museum, and more than 40 other museums...
...lawsuit also charges that the committee violated Zimmerman's rights "by refusing his request to have a lawyer represent him at the hearing, by falling to replace an absent member of the committee and by considering member of the considering evidence not presented at the hearing...
...also rare, if not utterly absent, in the conjoining of the Carlyles and the Mills, although these marriages were fruitful in other respects. During the Carlyles' 45-year relationship, Jane Welsh indefatigably cosseted her historian husband, screening him from "tiresome visitors, hapless servants, bedbugs, maddening noises." At the same time, she managed to write thousands of witty and reflective letters to her husband and friends that count among the best in the English language...
Such a scenario presupposes cooperation among the Western allies, a phenomenon that has been markedly absent from the realm of international relations of late. And it necessitates the acquiescence of the Black ruled states in Africa like Zimbabwe, states that depend on trade with South Africa to such an extent that they may not be able to forego economic relations with Pretoria. Still, policy options being what they are, we shouldn't be afraid to grab at straws in a violent wind. It's possible that the one we latch onto might provide the foundation for real, positive change...