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Sands, on the other hand, is marvelous as the quintessential failed romantic; petrified of going through life a victim of unrequited love, he remains terminally shy in confronting the fairer sex. Hanging from an apple tree shouting his creed of "Verite, Love, Glory," he is the embodiment of the failure of youthful idealism...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: A Fine Prospect | 4/4/1986 | See Source »

...both share a discouraged, even despairing view of government's role in society. Reagan, a political outsider, ran on a platform of getting the feds off America's back and has slashed and snipped when he wasn't selling wholesale. Similarly, JPK puts forward no vision of a brighter, fairer country led by responsive lawmakers committed to social justice. He instead opts to try to out-technocrat the conservatives, following the same defeatist logic that led Uncle Teddy '54 to support Gramm-Rudman's prescription for automatic budget cuts...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: A Name and Nothing Else? | 2/20/1986 | See Source »

...favorable position to his case and will do a good job of making sure that all lines of defense are covered. The end result of this disciplinary structure is strikingly similar to a "hanging judge," on a plane of its own in the Harvard community. Ironically, one gets a fairer trial in the criminal system itself than at this institution...

Author: By Michael L. Goldenberg, | Title: Ad Board Wrong in the Leverett Case | 2/13/1986 | See Source »

...forays back into the border area, is now virtually complete) and international condemnation of the U.S. and Israel. In a broader sense, the Shi'ites of Lebanon, newly radicalized by the violence that has plagued their country, particularly since the Israeli invasion of June 1982, are seeking a fairer shake after generations of neglect and discrimination by Lebanon's wealthier and more powerful Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims. Beyond all that, the Shi'ite fanatical fringe, inspired by the example of the Iranian revolution, wants to destroy the last vestiges of Western "decadence" in the Islamic world, particularly the presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Aboard Flight 847 | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...predicted grandiosely, it would produce a "great new era of progress, the age of the entrepreneur." Reform is needed, he said, because the present tax system is "complicated, unfair, littered with gobbledygook and loopholes." Drawing a stark comparison between today's tax law and his proclaimed simpler and fairer plan, he implied that the choice for taxpayers will be | easy. In a phrase that became the slogan of his campaign-style blitz, Reagan exhorted: "America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan: Making His Big Pitch | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

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