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...technique requirers strong legs and very little arm movement...
Meet Thomas Wolfe, anti-Semite. An early skit begins, "Enter two Jews, arm in arm, gesticulating and exhorting each other loudly. Each bears a money bag in his free hand." The Jews say, "to be bank, to de bank, to de bank." Even as late as 1935 he believed that "the Nazis were simply exhibiting what he considered normal hostility toward the Jews...
...traditionally little known department of some 100 lawyers that serves as principal counsel to the Secretary of State on matters of international law. To some observers, Sofaer has done no more than would be expected of an attorney serving his client -- even if that client is a policymaking arm of the U.S. Government. "Abe Sofaer is a great New York lawyer," Governor Mario Cuomo told a breakfast group. "If they tell him 'Make it legal, Abe,' he'll make it legal." Sofaer refuses to get caught in a law-vs.-policy dogfight. He cites Lyricist Sammy Cahn's dictum that...
...save them time and energy. Businesses, in particular, report that high-tech phones increase productivity and cut travel costs by making it possible to meet and swap information by phone line instead of by airline. Says Gary Handler, vice president of network planning for Bell Communications Research, the engineering arm for the local telephone companies: "The telephone network of the next generation will be capable of doing almost anything the public wants. The only question: Is the public ready?" If the speed with which smart telephones are appearing in homes and offices is any indication, the answer to that question...
Support for the House bill was spurred by the resignation of Arturo Cruz from the triumvirate that heads the United Nicaraguan Opposition, the contras' political arm. Cruz, a onetime Sandinista who has been a consistent advocate of democratic reforms within the rebel movement, never had much power, but his presence was a symbol that the contras were more than just a collection of embittered former supporters of deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Cruz's absence creates greater doubts about the caliber of the contra leadership. Elliott Abrams, the State Department's point man on the contra issue, disagrees. "The reform...