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While the diplomats talked and British forces closed in on Port Stanley, a somber, war-weary mood replaced the earlier exuberance in Buenos Aires. The patriotic fervor seemed to have wilted like the faded blue-and-white flags that dangled from telephone wires under a winter drizzle. On hearing of the loss of Port Darwin and Goose Green last week, an almost tearful hotel desk clerk pleaded, "We simply have to win this war. No other war really mattered as much to our pride and our history as this-we must...
Heavyweight Challenger Gerry Cooney quotes its lines with fervor. Olympic Figure Skater David Santee trained to its triumphant sound-track music. Its plot is adapted by feature writers and by coaches for locker-room pep talks. At V.F.W. halls, in cocktail lounges, and surgical scrub rooms, Americans on any occasion of victory or defeat, no matter how evanescent, are liable to exclaim, "It's just like Rocky!" The story of the virtuous and vulnerable heavyweight, Rocky Balboa, the Philadelphia club fighter who "went the distance" (Rocky, 1976) and battled to the championship (Rocky II, 1979), has become...
...fervor for tax reform...
...That will come as revelation to that large number on this campus who count anyone serious about their religion as infantile or disturbed. From the days of Elmer Gantry, evangelists have never enjoyed much support in circles like ours; though Graham drew respectable crowds, he stirred up relatively little fervor at still-Godless Harvard (where apathy has replaced atheism, non-belief being almost as taxing as faith). At the risk of sounding like a Good Book-thumping proselytizer, that pervasive lack of interest is a shame, especially for those who hope for the thoroughgoing change of this nation and this...
...disaster for Iraq. Dozens of burned-out Soviet-built tanks and hundreds of armored vehicles Uttered the flatlands, many mired in sand softened by March rains. A charred radar dish was draped with a poster of Khomeini and banners that proclaimed GOD is GREAT! Fired by religious fervor and a belief in the rightness of their cause, Iranian soldiers have proved to be a far more potent fighting force than Saddam Hussein expected. "When you believe in God, you win," said a young fighter pilot who, like many Iranians, had been trained in the U.S.; he still wore a breast...