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Although he is disturbed about the clamor over his brother, the President is convinced the uproar will fade away. Last week he was mulling over the details of the convention - who should nominate him, who should give the seconding speeches. The idea that his nomination was in danger was far from his mind, aides asserted. They found this both reassuring and curious...
...turn the episode into an issue. Said Democratic National Chairman John White: "It was a massive foul-up, and it's going to hurt him deeply. It raises all kinds of questions about Reagan as a decision maker." But some more neutral political experts thought the contretemps would quickly fade. Said Jonathan Moore, director of Harvard's Institute of Politics: "I don't believe that it will make any difference come November. It is not an issue that will last...
...like a pleasant dream, the details fade as soon as the film ends. Annaud and Dawaere, lestetes-unis, have great fun showing us the delicate power of restraint, even extending their satire to religion. But they never manage to draw us into their world. It ultimately remains much like the tight-knit, snobbish French villages they try to ridicule: neat, petty, and deluded by a mistaken sense of self-importance...
...blighted. Not that the pursuit of athletics is not an end in itself; but the pursuit of amateur athletics in the face of adversity carries high costs and offers meager returns. This summer we will focus on the pennant races and the tennis and golf tournaments while the amateurs fade into oblivion. They face a disgraceful fate, those who will not complete in Moscow: they are not news...
Laws and courts, like the state, were supposed to fade away as the Soviet system developed. Instead they have flourished. The Babushkinsky District People's Court, one of 32 in Moscow, is a typical tribunal empowered to try practically all civil and criminal cases. It employs ten full-time judges (seven of them women) and 750 people's assessors; these lay jurists, elected by co-workers or neighbors, consider the job an honor. Judicial business is booming, explains the chief judge, Polina Gorelova, because "here any citizen can take his case to court...