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...step right up and meet Axel (James Caan), the gambler as existential hero, a man determined to risk not only money but the love of family, a good woman (Lauren Hutton) and self...
Because, it would seem, he has read too much Dostoyevsky. From literature's most famous betting freak he has learned that the essence of heroism lies in seeking out risks you do not have to take. In Axel's case, recklessness takes the form of exercising a willed belief that Harvard and ten is a credible basketball...
...citizens can hardly expect official honesty and high-mindedness if the People attempt to banish morality from government in the name of libertarianism. Laws concerning abortion are merely an effort towards reconciling public and private interests and are therefore a fair and necessary subject for open political debate. Blair Axel...
That kind of toughness has won him both friends and enemies. Axel Springer's Die Welt calls him "a right leftist without trimmings." And Schmidt an swers: "I don't mind when people call me hard or decisive. I think I am a normal man." Privately, he enjoys his reputation as a hard-nose and sometimes puts on public displays of toughness to nurture the image. He recently lashed out at some youthful left-wing critics in his party with such vehemence that even seasoned politicos winced...
...grieved them. It was hard for them to believe that he would give up his high office simply because of the spy scandal, even though Guillaume had had access to secret NATO documents and other sensitive matters. There were rumors, given wide circulation by the anti-Brandt newspapers of Axel Springer, that Guillaume had gathered data about indiscretions in Brandt's private life and had attempted to blackmail the Chancellor. One such unsubstantiated story: Brandt in the early 1950s had an affair with an East German woman who was paid $125,000 by a West German intelligence agent when...