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...White House appeared surprisingly unruffled. "We're going to have a lot more chances, 'cause I'm going to do a lot more vetoing," said a feisty Reagan as he campaigned for Republican candidates in Utah last Friday. "Any time there is an attempt to bust the budget, I will veto...
During the past five years, banks have rushed to loan billions of dollars to real estate developers in the highly cyclical, boom-bust business of commercial-office-building construction. In doing so, they have helped fuel a building expansion that real estate experts fear may soon collapse...
...birthplace of someone who never lived and who, as long as there are readers, will never die: "Here in Joyce's imagination was born in May, 1866, Leopold Bloom-citizen, husband, father, wanderer, reincarnation of Ulysses." The Irish capital has changed in other small ways. A bronze bust of James Joyce stands in St. Stephen's Green, a small park near the city's center. The Chapelizod Bridge across the greenish River Liffey has been rechristened the Anna Livia Bridge, named after Anna Livia Plurabelle, the female force that flows through Finnegans Wake. Little by little...
There is cause for a small drop of Joycean malice as well. Dublin's embrace of its prodigal son is both tardy and tentative. The money for the bronze bust did not come from the Irish government but from American Express, to provide an additional lure to the swarms of foreign tourists who annually pay homage to the master. Many Irish natives remain unimpressed. Jerry Davis, a local artist who played the role of Bloom on Bloomsday, says of Joyce: "He was an impudent whacker. I don't really want to be identified with him." Symphorosa Daybell...
...wake of the bust, students went on strike, the governance of the College was radically reformed, and the campus ROTC chapter was abolished. Perhaps for reasons of prudence, perhaps for reasons of principle, and probably for reasons of both, the Faculty voted 255-81 to support a resolution condemning the Vietnam war on October...