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Brecht's analogy, while apt, isn't always historically accurate. Brecht means for Ui's blackmailing Dogsborough (David Cope) for power in Chicago to imply that Hitler blackmailed President Hindenburg in order to become chancellor, which is not necessarily true. Also, Brecht's meticulous parallel fails to take into account anti-Semitism...
Integrity is certainly the most important of a public servant's requisite virtues, and strictly speaking Ginsburg and Hart failed on this account. The fundamental question raised by the Ginsburg and Hart affairs, however, is not truthfulness versus untruthfuless. It goes much deeper, asking whether any person or agency has the right to ask about entirely private matters in the first place. For if such probing is inappropriate, the ultimate truthfulness of Ginsburg's--or any other candidate's--response must be seen as entirely irrelevant. A public figure has, in essence, the right to lie about or fudge questions...
...panic is over," he says, "but the jury is still out on the comfort factor." Fund companies have already launched a blitz of upbeat ads and letters to shareholders in an effort to convince customers that mutual funds are still a safe and lucrative alternative to the savings account -- or the mattress...
...first message is the massive number ((an estimated 50,000)) of people who came to hear my speech. President Reagan should take this into account. Any military option would be met with the armed resistance of the entire people. The other message is that Nicaragua is willing to live up to the peace accord...
Kwitny's research is formidable--so formidable, in fact that details of specific incidents tend to detract from his central purpose. While The Crimes of Patriots succeeds as an account of a series of interesting events, the events are not well enough connected to form a broad indictment of the CIA. The sometimes deadening effect of detail is evident when Kwitny recounts the questioning of Geort...