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...show. And if the kvetching starts to grow wearisome, Cosby manages to end on a note of uplift: " 'Dee-fense!' I am crying to joints that need 3-in-One Oil, to intestines that are begging for custard, and to eyes that are proud of their ability to distinguish day from night. However, I am also counting my blessings and not my time with a pointless pining for yesterday because I keep telling myself, 'The older I get, the luckier...
...anti-Washington populism, as Jimmy Carter did before that. There is no Viet Nam War, no polarizing social or civil rights crusades that can divide the candidates and shape the debate. Although there are issues ranging from the Robert Bork nomination to the contras to Star Wars that distinguish the two parties, they do little to distinguish those battling within them...
Pete du Pont hopes to distinguish himself as an iconoclast, a free-market conservative boldly willing to question sacrosanct social programs that his better-known rivals fear to address. He wants his ideas to speak for themselves, and loudly enough to drown out the murmurs about his patrimony. He has selected five issues that he believes can excite the electorate. It took the methodical du Pont two years to research and hone his message, and he has now compressed it neatly onto a single 3-in. by 5-in. card that he keeps in his breast pocket. Dispensing with...
...Hull ruled for the families, ordering that their children be allowed to sit out the reading classes. He also ordered the school board to pay the families more than $50,000 in damages. In overturning the decision last week, Appellate Judge Pierce Lively wrote that Hull had failed to distinguish between simply reading or talking about other beliefs and being compelled to adopt them. "There was no evidence," Lively declared, "that the conduct required of the students was forbidden by their religion...
...with the notion that if you're a secret agent, you bloody well stay secret." Still, it is one thing to stop an agent from violating his vow of secrecy and quite another to try to bar reporting about allegations that are now public. "To fail to distinguish between Mr. Wright's obligations to the government and the press's right to publish seems like a very serious mistake to me," says Sunday Times Editor Andrew Neil...