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...know what's going to happen from one day to the next," he added, "but we're ready to start that new chapter, a new adventure...
...Foundation would agree--but when he broached the idea of acquiring the ladder at the next meeting he met with surprisingly harsh resistance from Kissinger. "It's just a terrible idea," the nation's only celebrity diplomat kept repeating. "Why would you want to remind visitors about this horrible chapter in American history...
Fitzgerald's most interesting chapter is her first - her effort to locate Reagan as a figure in American myth, specifically, in exceptionalism and the salvation doctrine of the American civil religion. In 1979, Reagan visited the NORAD base hollowed out of the core of Cheyenne Mountain, Colo., the nerve center of American air defenses. The base commander told Reagan that from there, the military could track an incoming nuclear missile but could do nothing to stop it. Fitzgerald writes: "[The story] resonates with Biblical and mythological overtones... Reagan can be seen as the innocent, the American Everyman...
...every chapter in this story has offered a twist, and last week was no exception. For the past four months no one could know for certain whether Juan Miguel was reading from a script, speaking from the heart--or both. But anyone who heard his passionate demand to be reunited with Elian, and his denunciation of the Miami relatives who had paraded his son in the streets and fed him to Diane Sawyer, had to believe he might be entirely sincere in his desire simply to retrieve his child and go home to Cuba for good. As Democratic Congressman Jose...
...Awards be held there because performers from Castro's Cuba may be part of the program. The move will cost the town some $40 million in revenue and considerable pop-culture cachet. And so last week, John de Leon, 38, a Cuban American who is president of the Miami chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit to void the local law that prevents shows by artists from Castro's Cuba. In the past, De Leon might have received instant death threats from militant anti-Castro groups, but they are caught in an Elian quagmire of their own making...