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...particularly the House, which he feels "is like the people, both good and bad -- just as it was intended to be." He accepts contributions from political- action committees; ranks high in honorariums received; favored the 51% pay raise for Congress, judges and top Administration officials; and can be blunt with hecklers...
...particularly in view of its 18-month-old campaign to oust him. But Noriega's departure continues to be Washington's main goal, and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft disclosed last week that the U.S. has resumed efforts to find a country willing to offer Noriega refuge. In unusually blunt language, Bush told reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday that "the will of the people should not be thwarted by this man and a handful of Doberman thugs. They ought to do everything they can to get Mr. Noriega out of there." Asked if he wished to temper...
Gennadi Yagodin, appointed last year as chairman of the State Committee for Public Education, has been blunt about the failings of teachers. Many cannot be replaced or re-educated, he says; the system is simply stuck with them. Money is another problem. Yagodin has promised to double the budget for new school construction and teaching materials. But the biggest need, he feels, is for free thinking. Says Yagodin: "The school badly wants more democracy." In the end, only a generation of new teachers, trained in the era of glasnost, may be able to carry out the sweeping school reform...
...whirlwind day of charges and countercharges between two powerful Democrats on Beacon Hill began with a morning news conference in Shannon's office. Using unusually blunt and harsh language, a visibly angry Shannon said "people in [Keverian's] office...at various points made it difficult" for his investigators to proceed...
...early, prompted by the sensations and surroundings of childhood. Visiting Shillington, Updike unexpectedly finds himself at loose ends for a couple of hours and wanders about through a soft spring drizzle, trying to recapture his past. He enters familiar ground: "The street, the house where I had lived, seemed blunt, modest in scale, simple; this deceptive simplicity composed their precious, mystical secret, the conviction of whose existence I had parlayed into a career, a message to sustain a writer book after book." His first attempts to put this secret into words were, he gently suggests, sometimes misunderstood: "My own style...