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Fragments of evidence from his early home times confirm Carter's memories of love and challenge, of parents who were "there" in fact and in caring insistence that there were works to be done. By age twelve, Son Jimmy had learned to list among "healthy mental habits" this first one: "the habit of expecting to accomplish what you attempt." By 52, he and his folks were finding running for President-with all its frustrations-"the most gratifying, exciting thing we've ever done." Like F.D.R. and H.S.T. and J.F.K., Carter discovered, as child and man, that he could...
...provided previously unknown touches about shipboard life (filet mignon was standard fare; Deep Throat was the favorite flick). Rodriguez's most significant hint, however, was that Glomar retrieved the entire Soviet sub. TIME checked out Rodriguez's suggestion with a number of Pentagon experts, who appeared to confirm it. They conceded that significant. and so far undisclosed portions of the sub-including nuclear missiles and torpedoes-had been recovered from the seabed. "A technical mother lode." one Navy official called...
...Great Epic. In any event, this fragment clearly is a major addition to the Milton corpus, illuminating as it does with hitherto unparalleled clarity the personal dimension to Paradise Lost, showing how deeply rooted the poem is in Milton's own experience. The fragment also seems to confirm Harold Bloom's controversial claim in A Map of Misreading that Milton's "allusiveness introjects the past, and projects the future, but at the paradoxical cost of the present, which is not voided but is yielded up to an experiential darkness." The fragment is printed here for the first time, with spelling...
...numbers confirm it," Elizabeth A. Reid, associate psychiatrist to the UHS, said yesterday. "It's obvious from the annual statistical reports we put out. There are particularly more senior and particularly fewer freshmen...
...poems in the book confirm the popularized notions of Islamic fatalism. "The fates have ways unaltering, and men's aims are beyond their impotent reach," writes Gibran. Mikhail Nuaymah declares: "Fate is my ally and destiny my travelling mate." Shukri takes resignation furthest: "Life is but a continual dying/Goodness and pleasures are but borrowed...