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...pageantry of Princess Anne's wedding amid Britain's own current economic travails and by the disarray afflicting the U.S. The journal rightly divines that both the incumbent in the office and a good many Americans seem to identify the presidency with the country itself. When "we cloak a head of government also with the dignity of a head of state," that person will face "steadily greater temptations to breach the rights of ordinary...
...fire," he said. "Just so it doesn't cease." On a parallel road to the south, a grisly Israeli soldier flagged us down. The smell of corpses was heavy in the air. Just beyond us was Kilometer 101, where Israeli and Egyptian generals had met under the protective cloak of the U.N. An Israeli officer told us: "Both sides want this cease-fire to work. The other day an Egyptian general turned over to us some of his own men who had sneaked through our lines because he feared that the arrangements for supplying the Third Army would break...
Middle-earth is very nearly as large as the United States east of the Mississippi. Frodo and some true-hearted companions endure Ringwraiths and Barrow-wights, hordes of Ores, who are Sauron's shock troops, and much cloak-and-daggering. When Frodo triumphs, finally, and destroys the ring, it is only with the perverse collaboration of Gollum, a pitiably evil creature with froglike feet who sounds a bit like Oliver Twist's Fagin and is one of the memorable minor characters in English literature...
...White House records raised a constitutional question never before resolved in the republic's 197 years, a decision that might affect the conduct of Presidents yet unborn: To what extent can the Executive Branch maintain strict privacy in defiance of the other branches even if that privacy may cloak a crime...
...rare occasions, Safire has sharply jabbed his ex-boss. After Nixon's May 22 statement disclosing the widespread use of domestic eavesdropping under the cloak of national security, Safire wondered: "At what point does the defense of our system corrupt our system?" When it was revealed that the President had taped his office and telephone conversations, Safire criticized Nixon's "horrendous blunder...