Word: beene
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Some days recently the real President (named Bush) has been crowded out of the news by the antics of the has-beens. Ronald Reagan was on display in Japan for a reported $2 million (or 284 million yen) from the Fujisankei Communications Group. Jimmy Carter was in Nashville instructing listeners on how he wrote his books. Richard Nixon huffed off yet again to China after disconnecting his AT&T phone service because the company was sponsoring the TV version of The Final Days, last weekend's account of the end of Watergate and Nixon's presidency. Gerald Ford...
"I'm deeply sorry for the people who have been hurt," Bakker contritely told U.S. District Judge Robert Potter just before the sentencing. "I have sinned. I have made mistakes. But never in my life did I intend to defraud anyone." That last-ditch bid for leniency made little impression...
The problem, of course, is that a case-by-case approach can easily create inconsistencies. For one thing, legislatures are not always careful to calibrate each offense according to its severity; this can lead to situations in which an armed assault can draw the same penalty, say 15 years, as...
As an ideological earthquake rocks the Soviet empire, fracturing the social, political and economic arrangements that have guided East bloc relations since 1945, the first impulse is to check its force on the Richter scale. But the next task, the part where the debris must be cleared away and planners...
Shevardnadze spoke approvingly last week of the political upheavals in Eastern Europe, maintaining that each country has "absolute freedom of choice." But what if ethnic or nationalist rivalries erupt? Suppose Soviet and East European notions of reform become incompatible? What if, for instance, Hungary or Poland should choose to withdraw...