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...family's car had escalated from a police-blotter item to a diplomatic showdown between the superpowers. The reason: though he returned home under his own power ten hours later, both President Reagan and the New York Times had that day received letters, purportedly from him, requesting asylum. Kept hidden away by the Soviets for more than a week while they and U.S. officials sparred over how to handle the matter, Andrei finally appeared at two small, hastily arranged news conferences, one at the Soviet embassy and one on American soil at Dulles International Airport. Minutes later, with...
Andrei repeatedly denied having written any letters requesting asylum. He noted that the letter to the Times did not even have his name right...
Solipsism is the belief that the whole world is me, and as Mathematician Martin Gardner points out, its authentic version is not to be found outside mental institutions. What is to be found outside the asylum is its philosophic cousin, the belief that the whole world is like me. This species of solipsism-plural solipsism, if you like-is far more common because it is far less lonely. Indeed, it yields a very congenial world populated exclusively by creatures of one's own likeness, a world in which Lincoln pines for his dinner with André or, more consequentially...
...since 1961, and left behind spouses who are U.S. citizens. New Orleans Consul General Augustin Alfaro, U.S.-educated and a resident of the city for ten years, decided to stay: just before the Administration's departure deadline she requested (and doubtless will be granted) political asylum...
...Miles, Lila has be come positively shrewish on the subject of society's permissiveness regarding the criminally insane. She scuttles busily about making things go bump in the night, hoping to loosen Norman's new and tentative grip on his sanity and send him back to the asylum...