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...early 1970s, the Innuit and the Cree Indians, who also dwell in the area, brought suit in Canadian courts to halt construction of the $15 billion James Bay hydroelectric-power project, charging that it would result in damage to their lands. In 1973 the Quebec Superior Court ruled in the plaintiffs' favor. But after a one-week suspension, work on the immense undertaking was resumed when the Quebec Court of Appeal reversed the earlier ruling...
While the pecuniary part of campaigns is kept under wraps, the public part has come to dwell on anything but politics. Concurrent with the rise of political action committees has come the practice of celebrity politics. Remember the rock'n'roll politics of the 1980 campaign, where musicians like the Gregg Allman Band, Linda Ronstadt, and Willie Nelson lent their public image for limited political exploitation? This year Ronald Reagan has been the most effective practitioner of this ruse, craftily manipulating the names and photos of Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and others for his own re-election...
...ailments in recent years, limped to the podium, few in the hall needed reminding that an electrifying televised campaign speech on Goldwater's behalf 20 years ago by a Hollywood has-been had launched Ronald Reagan on his political career. Reagan aides had hoped that Goldwater would not dwell too much on his old crusades, but the Senator was unswayed by pleas that he not repeat the most famous and divisive line from his own acceptance speech. He uttered it with gusto: "Let me remind you, extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice...
...that for a moment we forget that there is any drama going on, and would be content just continuing to watch the tableau. By the end of the movie. Charlie has truly become the Pope of Greenwich Village, but--he knows and we know that his happiest memories will dwell on scenes like the playground, scenes that mix a tension about the future with a down-to-earth acceptance of inability to fulfill his dreams...
...same selective memory, veterans dwell on spontaneous displays of mercy in combat rather than on acts of brutality. Although no one wants to be reminded that both sides occasionally shot prisoners, usually because they lacked the time or means to guard them, one notorious exception is the 12th SS Panzer Division's murder of nearly 40 Canadian and British prisoners in a château garden near Bayeux. Liska's unit ran into a handful of soldiers in German uniforms from the conquered Eastern territories who had probably been pressed into service. Said Liska, "They kept saying they were Russians...