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...about each other’s interests and passions. Downer had been planning on proposing in Jamaica and had asked Owings’ parents for permission beforehand. He knew that Owings did not want a grand gesture and thought the moment was right. Their wedding this July will certainly befit their Harvard beginnings: the ceremony will take place at Memorial Church, with the reception at the downtown Harvard Club...
...demonstrate what Reaganism (and, to be fair, Kempism, because Jack was critical to President Reagan's success) was really about: conservatism with a smile, conservatism of multiplication not division, optimism about the future, the best of the old applied to the new. Above all, conservatism appropriately constructed as befit the party of Lincoln...
...that there be a ''sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all'' is just the same recycled liberal baloney we have been force-fed for decades. There is more to governing than making good speeches. William L. Aumic Guilderland, N.Y. The caricature on the cover does not befit Cuomo and misses completely his sense of caring, his warmth and charm. Carolyne Chirichello Santa Cruz, Calif. Your cover illustration of Cuomo was a joy to behold. Al Hirschfeld has been doing those fabulous line drawings since the George M. Cohan days. And, as is his tradition, he even...
While autocrats still control Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, Mugabe is the last of that Old Guard of former freedom fighters. His passing would befit an Africa that is entering a new era characterized by democracy, peace, robust economic growth and a fresh generation of capable leaders like Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Few nations have suffered more from the failures of the generation that led Africa to independence than Zimbabwe, and no people more than Zimbabweans deserve the type of leadership that is transforming the continent for the better...
...personality—not his policy—that has done France the most harm thus-far. As Americans, we know better than most the high price a country pays for the buffoonery of their leader. When a president consistently behaves in a manner that does not befit his office, he loses credibility, both internationally and domestically. Nicolas Sarkozy needs to realize that France does not need another civilian, nor another celebrity. France needs a president, and it is high time he started acting like...