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Reagan's weak response reflected an Administration desire to go as easy as possible on the Argentines, although the U.S. had supported the U.N. resolution calling for Argentina to get out of the Falklands. Reversing Jimmy Carter's policy, which denied aid to Argentina because of its human rights violations, the Reagan Administration was trying to work closely with the junta. U.N. Ambassador Kirkpatrick had singled out the Argentine regime as an example of a "friendly authoritarian" government...
...someone other than Ted Kennedy to lecture Hillary about the supposed damage she’ll be doing the party if she’s carrying on her fight through the summer. In 1980, Kennedy waited until the day before the convention began to abandon a challenge to Jimmy Carter, a sitting President, although he was behind by approximately a thousand delegates. Who’s going be the elder statesman to tell Hillary she should abandon her quest to be the first woman President because she trails by a few delegates, with Florida and Michigan still uncounted...
...Hell hath no fury like an agent scorned” seems to be the enduring message of Douglas Carter Beane’s “The Little Dog Laughed,” a sharp chamber comedy that fiercely satirizes Hollywood wheeling and dealing and probes issues of gay identity in the popular media.The Tony-nominated play makes its New England premier at the Wembly Theater at the Calderwood Pavillion, directed by Paul Melone and running through Feb. 16.The play focuses on Mitchell Green (Robert Serrell), a young actor confused about his sexual orientation and attempting to reconcile a budding...
...which called for the abolition of slavery. Although in more recent decades LDS adherents have acquired a reputation for conservatism, Mormons such as Stewart Udall (Secretary of the Interior) and Esther Peterson (Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau) have served the country in the Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter administrations. In January 2005, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others organized the Mormon Democratic Congressional Caucus in hopes of tapping into this progressive tradition of politics among Mormons...
...study, an aide who was not involved with the birth of a baby would stand in a hospital room while the mother was in labor," says Sue Carter, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois. "The mothers later reported that they found the person very sympathetic, even though she was doing nothing...