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REAGAN INLANDS to honor the soldiers of the Third Reich. The mentality behind Reagan's tribute is that the Germans had brave soldiers too, who showed their courage and determination in the thick of battle just as the Allied soldiers did. But what were the Nazis fighting to preserve...
THERE COMES a time in the lives of bipeds, both feathered and otherwise, when they must raise up arms, and wings, against tyranny long established and struggle for their inalienable rights as animals. Such was the brave effort last week to free Ibis L. Threskiornis '89 from his perch atop the Harvard Lampoon building where he had sat tethered by a steel cable for more than three decades...
...lecture itinerary has temporarily stranded him at a dreary medieval conference in Rummidge, a drab, provincial English university. Also on hand to suffer the droning speeches and inedible food is Persse McGarrigle, a young Irishman who is a virgin both in the traditional sense and vis-a-vis the brave new world of gypsy scholars. What dazzles McGarrigle most about the proceedings is Angelica, a beautiful and budding literary critic who befriends him but mysteriously eludes his chivalrous advances. Persse muses: "It's as if she had a magic ring for making herself invisible...
...that year went on, Johnson's manic-depressive swings seemed to speed up. In August 1966: "Our forces will not be defeated. A Communist military takeover is no longer just improbable; as long as the U.S. and our brave allies are in the field, it is impossible." By January 1967 it was this way: "It would be just my luck to have the bombers come over North Viet Nam and the lead plane would be piloted by a boy from Johnson City and he'd put a bomb right down the smokestack of a Soviet ship in Haiphong Harbor...
...would be wrong it tribute Local 26's notorious weak on the shop floor to any Phenomenon of working class Tory it's because the union seems its representing someone besides them media, the public. And that dangerous game for the unions to what happens when the boss decide brave public opinion--and couldn't he, they do it all the time--if the union can live up to its speech and promises? Perhaps it same labor leaders who were proper of a brave new left negotiate sweeping concession just those familiar, corrupt bureaucrats the post have done. Perhaps they...