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...1970s, the archetypal gardener was over 50 and had time and money to spare: a smug matron with impeccable calceolarias, an eccentric rosarian, a spinster growing herbs. But now, says the National Gardening Association, 78% of America's households garden, and all the recent surveys suggest that the most fervent converts are between 30 and 49 and still evenly divided between men and women. Those who once bought geraniums and parched them in college dorm rooms have discovered that they can even garden competitively...
...President has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Gorbachev's efforts at glasnost and perestroika. He has met with the Soviet premier four times in the last two years and hammered out a verifiable arms control accord which sailed through the Senate with relative ease. The once-fervent anti-communist even scolded hawks and former bedfellows like Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) for their stubborn resistance to any semblance of an arms control treaty. This shows just how far Reagan has come from his we-can't-negotiate-with-communists crusades of a few years...
Last Friday, Baker gathered up notes on the week's doings that he had scribbled with his trusty felt-tipped pen, and he walked over to update his boss in the Oval Office. It is also one of Baker's fervent goals to help Reagan go out with dignity and glory. It is not strange at all that such a finale for the President would be about the best thing to happen to George Bush...
...administration regards illegal foreign acts important only if they are committed by a communist government. Three, the administration approves of the system of apartheid. Any one of these conclusions is readily believeable, but not one of them is excusable. It is inconceivable that an administration that claims such a fervent commitment to the principles of freedom and democracy on the one hand could issue a mere slap on the wrist to a government that tortures schoolchildren...
...charismatic Christian who uses fervent congregations as political beachheads, just as Jesse Jackson employs black churches, Robertson nonetheless has failed to unite even his own religious family. Likely Republican voters who describe themselves as Evangelical or Fundamentalist Christians divide 44% for Bush, 30% for Dole and only 14% for Robertson. Jackson attracts overwhelming support from blacks, churchly and secular, because his message is that of economic populism. Moralism dominates Robertson's pitch, even though he now avoids mentioning his long membership in the Baptist ministry...