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Fidel Castro's prestige and adventurism in the Caribbean and Central America had sustained a setback. The U.S.'s European allies, who had initially been highly critical of the American resort to military force, began softening their rhetoric as the success of the intervention seemed clearer. The U.N. General Assembly voted 108 to 9 to denounce the U.S. move, but Reagan airily dismissed its action with the quip: "It did not upset my breakfast any." (The White House press office promptly produced Reagan's breakfast menu: one poached egg, fruit, toast, coffee...
...brand of fiction, one in which the characters as well as the audience are party to the author's hopes, secrets, and best-guesses. Though cantankerous, disheveled Svea dies early in Bly's "The Dignity of Life," she rises in memory like a hazy phoenix, growing slowly clearer in the author's conception...
...modern life is profound, even for those who know little about the doctrinal feuds that brought him unsought fame. From the distance of half a millennium, the man who, as Historian Hans Hillerbrand of Southern Methodist University in Dallas says, brought Christianity from lofty theological dogma to a clearer and more personal belief is still able to stimulate more heated debate than all but a handful of historical figures...
Walters is using the University for $100.000 and is asking for a court order requiring Harvard to adopt a clearer, more detailed procedures for complaints of sexual harassment
...soon thought I knew the answer, and it was ominous indeed. For speeding by on the left was a big red Oldsmobile with Michigan plates. A clearer sign couldn't have come my way. The meaning was obvious...