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...Carters have always been close, but Rosalynn's role as a political adviser is only now becoming clearer. She and she alone was consulted on every move in Carter's bid to revitalize his presidency this past month. The doleful documentation of national dispirit reported by Presidential Pollster Pat Caddell in his April memo deeply affected her, and she expressed her concern to her husband. Said one top aide: "She sensed that something had to be done before he did, and that had a huge impact on his thinking." So she launched with the President a personal study...
...extent to which the Senate might append its understandings to the various SALT II documents will become clearer as the ratification process progresses. The Foreign Relations Committee hearings run at least through early August; the Armed Services Committee begins its own hearings on July 23. By mid-October, the full Senate will start debating the treaty, and a vote will probably come sometime the following month...
Some examples are clearer than others. Keats enjoyed an occasional draft of opium, and, Dr. Ober points out, his imagery can be pharmacologically explicit ("My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains . ."). Restoration Poet John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, enshrined his premature ejaculations in The Imperfect Enjoyment. The disorder, Ober suggests may have been caused by confusion and guilt: the earl was bisexual...
Last week's events should have made even clearer that the world's petro-woes are caused not by the oil companies, not even by the bureaucrats, but by the cartel. Whatever their past excesses, it is not the companies but OPEC's members that have banded together to exploit the world shortage of oil and to make that shortage more acute by holding back production. The response of the industrial nations, a forced limit on petroleum imports, will, their leaders agree, bring about a lowering of living standards. In the immediate future, the U.S. most likely...
Still, Rupp hints that some consolidation program will probably bring a sense of cohesiveness to all members of the Div School. "A pressing need is to get a clearer idea of what students and faculty at the Divinity School have in common," Rupp says. He adds, "Differentiation into different degree programs gives the impression of more splinteredness than is the case...