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Harvard head football coach Joe Restic refuses to confirm or deny a published report that he has been offered the job of offensive coordinator by the Los Angeles Rams...
COMMON SENSE and moral intuition, which confirm so much of what Posner says about economic science and its relation to ethics, reject his optimistic assessment of freedom of information and prejudice. Bigotry survives, economic cost regardless, and probably will continue for along, long time. As approximations go, rationality has served the world of economists well, but so have fairies and demons the world of storytellers. Certain remembrances of the real world might be only the tiniest grain of salt that readers need to take Posner's theories...
...story began "taking on a life of its own." It first became public in mid-November, after reporters began noticing tighter security measures around Reagan and other top officials. The White House vigorously attempted to discourage news coverage of both the threats and the security precautions. Reporters seeking to confirm details of the story with Government officials were advised not to overreact. But as the days passed, the story was enhanced in tantalizing bits and pieces until what had started as rumor became a full-fledged scare. Soon the White House, FBI and Secret Service found themselves forced to react...
...weapon movement that has mobilized millions of Western Europeans in opposition to the deployment of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles. Holding the sheaf of white pages far from his body so that he could read the large-type Cyrillic characters without his eyeglasses, Brezhnev at first seemed to confirm his audience's suspicions by announcing in his heavy, measured monotone that he had come to Bonn with a "new, essential element" in the Soviet position. Then he said, "In the course of genuine negotiations with the U.S., we would be ready to reduce [mediumrange weapons...
Both Veliotes and Crocker deny that the official made any formal proposal of covert action during their meeting with him, although they admit the discussion did involve Libya. Edwin Meese, counsellor to the President, would neither confirm nor deny there was a plan. Said he: "It would be totally inappropriate for me to comment." Declared State Department Spokesman Dean Fischer: "There was no discussion of a covert plot to overthrow Gaddafi, and the French official made no request for logistical or diplomatic assistance from...