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...does Buckley, who never offers bait without a barb. Oakes expresses "dismay over the mind-boggling incapacity of Frenchmen to govern themselves." Acheson recalls John Stuart Mill's observation that while Conservatives are not generally stupid, "stupid people are generally Conservative." The Soviet intelligence chief pays the author a compliment by quoting from a National Review article on an assassination attempt that "had all the earmarks of a CIA operation...
...Kennedy wants Carter onstage. We always seem to come back to show business. He wants to bait Carter to see whether he cannot get the President to impale himself fatally on some verbal shaft. Remember Richard Nixon and John Kennedy. Nixon had sweat on his upper lip, and people did not like his looks. Nixon may have lost the 1960 election in a few dismal seconds on the tube. There are a lot of people still around who wonder if that was any way to choose...
...page State of the Union message touting his Administration's accomplishments in somewhat questionable language. Among other things, he claimed as a major achievement that "the decline in defense spending has been reversed"-totally ignoring his 1976 campaign pledge to cut it further. Republicans quickly rose to the bait. John Tower of Texas, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said the document made "claims which border on the perfidious...
...relating the wonders and pitfalls of being a professional woman I cautioned that successful moments are often tainted by people who are quick to dismiss or qualify your ability and attribute a woman's achievement to affirmative action. At some point most women, including myself, rise to the bait and launch into a tirade stressing that they are extremely capable and deserving of their position. This surge of anger is not likely to change anyone's mind. Offering no catharsis, anger only succeeds in undermining the principle of affirmative action. within this context, many professional women feel trapped...
...English-Scottish border, surrounded by 3,000 acres of grouse moors and prime fishing spots along a stream called Leet Water. Angular Angler Home, who has tried "every known lure from the maggot to the dryest of flies," also dotes on lore. His technique for harvesting worms, a favorite bait: "Take a tablespoon of mustard, mix in warm water and sprinkle it on an area of lawn about a yard square. In two or three minutes, the worms will wriggle to the surface...