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...papers, stirred Reagan's wrath as he lay in bed only two hours away from surgery. He adamantly insisted to Regan that the Senate majority leader, and the public, be disabused of the notion that the White House was caving in. The chief of staff later called Dole to express the President's unhappiness with what Regan described as the Senator's "unkind remark...
...other, wanted to scale down the Government is leaving behind the biggest deficit in U.S. history. Stockman has seen the deficit grow from $58 billion in 1981 to considerably more than $200 billion this year. Although some economists say that the importance of the deficit figure is overrated, most express a real concern that it now equals approximately 5.5% of the gross national product, up from 2% in 1981. The debt racked up by the budgets Stockman has overseen equals that accumulated under all previous Administrations. Even though the amount going to domestic programs will be sharply reduced in real...
Rosenblatt found his first perspective in May, when he met Yoshitaka Kawamoto, the director of Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Museum. "He had been in the city during the bombing," says Rosenblatt. "He had a deep sense of the experience and could express it in poetic language. For the next five days, I stayed with him as he revisited all the sites of his early life and provided his account of the bombing...
...attend an event, other than war, in another country." Londoners and regular tourists had to wait in line as lawyers festooned in white name tags filled restaurants, pubs and tour sites that A.B.A. members had booked long in advance. Popular West End productions such as Cats and Starlight Express were sold out, and reservations soared at Raymond's Revue Bar, a burlesque house whose newspaper ads promised A.B.A. lawyers "the greatest erotic entertainment in London." Tourism officials estimated that the visiting attorneys would spend $40 million on their six-day visit...
...failure of the Prince and his friends to create a believable feminine identity simply by wearing women’s clothes (in contrast to the convincing disguise they provide for men in Shakespearean comedies) reveals the play’s agenda to express gender as rigid and biologically-determined. The fact that the eunuchs can dress monochromatically like women demonstrates that they have lost their biologically male trait...