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...boys' father, she takes up with Harry, then the parking-lot magnate, then Harry again, and her sons are understandably bewildered. When the younger one asks for some answers, she comforts him with "life is an amazing bitch." The real truth Busch misses is that adult love is a feather compared to the attachments children make. While Catherine's unwillingness to give reassurance to her sons when she has none to give is admirable for its honesty, Busch would have had a deeper love story if he had considered the notion of Catherine's waiting to welcome Harry into...
After dinner, it's time to find a place to stay. Sadly enough, the Crimson Undergraduate Experience does not include room service, feather pillows or wake-up calls. Find a place, if you can, where the bathrooms are cleaned once every other week, where the only food delivered to your room is from Dial-a-Pizza, and where a game of checkers can be heard through the walls...
...pragmatic," he relates; "the East Europeans were elemental, emotional, very moving in their idealism. We just can't mumble to them." What better tutor in this changing world than Thomas Jefferson, who long ago counseled, "We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather...
...three years before Corazon Aquino rode a wave of national anger to become President of the Philippines, one of the country's most astute political observers made an eerily prescient assessment. "So she becomes the rallying point," he said. "Immediately, corruption will increase. Everybody will feather his nest. At that point, she will be nudged to the side and be made a scapegoat for the mess. Then the military will take over. They will say, 'Well, we've given you your chance.' But they will have made sure she would fail. They will then throw her to the people...
...hands of the U.S. Air Force. The President's three Marine helicopters had been ferried in the belly of an Air Force transport and were waiting for him on the Malta ramps. From there the machines whirled him 50 miles to the aircraft carrier Forrestal, then settled him back feather-like on the fantail of the Belknap. Rubber-suited Marine divers bounced in dinghies along the tops of the rising waves, patrolling for any suspicious movement in adjacent waters. A shabby little barge, old tires festooning its scuffed sides, turned out to be in the employ of the Navy...