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...those who didn't see him struggle to cover up for the mistakes of inexperienced defensemen and compensate for a lack of consistent scoring punch game alter game for three years. It was hard to consider Wade Lau as anything more than a mediocre ECAC goaltender. All the unknowing saw were statistics like 4.78 and 4.63 goals against averages and a save percentage that hovered in the mid-eighties, so there were no awards for Lau, nothing to confirm his standing as one of the top goalies in the region...
...domestic affairs, Koivisto tends to be austerity-minded (he calls himself a conservative Social Democrat). In foreign affairs, he is expected to do nothing to alter the foundation of his nation's policy: its close working relationship with the Soviet Union, an intimacy that has made "Finlandization" an operative word in every diplomat's vocabulary. During his campaign, Koivisto said that "stable and confidential relations with the Soviet Union have been and will be the central element of Finland's foreign policy." In Finland, no serious and prudent candidate could make any other pledge...
...story was a new twist on an old tale--how American public officials lied to each other and to the public over the course of the long war. Specifically, a CBS documentary ("The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception") showed how the U.S. military successfully strove to "supress and alter" estimates of Communist forces in Vietnam before the January 1968 Tet offensive...
...lift from this jaunty medley of 1950s history and spy fiction. Through diplomatic freeze and thaw, William F. Buckley Jr., editor of the National Review, has always kept his ideological thermostat set at a conservative 32° F. In his fourth novel-entertainment, he again slips into the adventurous alter id, Blackford Oakes, the dashing Yalie spook who first appeared in Saving the Queen...
...mind. In fact, even as he played fast and loose with the letter of Marxism, Lenin was, in a way, being true to its spirit. "Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways," wrote Marx, "the point is, to change it." As Lenin set out to alter the world, he found in Marx's philosophy some useful tools and weapons...