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...every speech, however, Reagan took care to compliment Gorbachev on the liberalization he has already achieved in Soviet society. To the dissidents he proclaimed that "this is a moment of hope . . . the freedom to keep the fruits of one's own labor, for example, is a freedom that the present reforms seem to be enlarging. We hope one freedom will lead to another." Aides left no doubt that Reagan was deliberately attempting to give a boost to Gorbachev, who faces key votes on further proposed reforms at a Communist Party conference beginning June 28. Reagan "believes that without Gorbachev there...
Harvard hockey Coach Bill Cleary is always free with a compliment...
...most issues. Jackson reinforced the front runner's middle-of-the-road image last week by quipping that Dukakis "has liberal dreams, but at this point a conservative set of numbers to pay for his dreams." While the label "fiscal conservative" might seem opprobrious to Jackson, it is a compliment in many places, including California, the cradle of the 1970s tax revolt...
There is of course some irony in the Russian passion for books. Knowing the power of written words, Russian authority has for centuries accorded books the brutal compliment of suppression. It has slain books by other means than fire. Book publishing first flourished in Russia under Catherine the Great, and yet it was she who used local police, corrupt and ignorant, to enforce the country's first censorship regulations. Czar Nicholas I conducted a sort of terrorism against certain books and writers. He functioned as personal censor for Pushkin and banished Dostoyevsky to Siberia. Revolution only encouraged the Russian candle...
...words in TIME by the number of word journalists on our masthead. "That works out to slightly over 100 words a week per journalist," he wrote, explaining that the staff generates and then digests vast amounts of reporting, most of which never sees print. He then added a barbed compliment: "It is a system of literary creation like nothing else on earth, except Newsweek." Welcome to our masthead, Mr. Kinsley...