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...THIS weren't enough, Steinberg includes an appendix consisting of particularly cogent remarks by Rayburn, which he calls "Rayburnisms." It includes profundities like "The size of a man has nothing to do with his height" and "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build...
While Europe's diplomats meet to consecrate détente, dissident Soviet Physicist Andrei Sakharov offers some cogent reservations about the process in a recently completed essay, My Country and the World. Excerpts from it accompany our cover story. They were selected by TIME'S State Department correspondent Strobe Talbott, whose previous credits include translating two volumes of Khrushchev Remembers (Little, Brown & Co.), including his The Last Testament...
...courts have said that draft boards had to give specific, cogent reasons for rejecting deferment applications. They were also required to consider formally claims of physical disability. Many boards did not do so, and men who can prove it can offer that as a legal defense...
...welcome change is provided in a new book by Thomas Griffith, How True: A Skeptic's Guide to Believing the News.* With witty epigrams and cogent commentary, Griffith avoids knee-jerk assaults on both the press and its critics. Rather he wants his readers to understand what journalism is and is not-and why. He points out that publications are often trapped by their own style and history ("The last time an editor is a free spirit is the day he puts to press volume one, number one"). Publishing economics is an ever larger concern ("Somewhere in the background...
...much of his "verbatim" recollection of extended narratives accurately captures the children's voices. Much of the talk is just too smooth, subtle and script-like. Eleven year-olds can be very insightful (as Cottle concludes), but it is still hard to imagine many of them launching into a cogent polemic such...