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...expected to lift the measures "as soon as possible." That could mean early June, when Japan joins the U.S. and major West European nations in Venice for an economic summit. Nakasone would like the sanctions lifted even sooner. Calling them a "very sore thorn sticking in our small finger," the Prime Minister sought their immediate removal. But Reagan did not give any specific date. The U.S. first wants to see clear signs that Japan is living up to a 1986 agreement to refrain from selling semiconductors for less than it costs to produce them...
...abstract quality to the violence -- a terrible beauty, as the impressionable might put it. It also implies that beneath the director's wolfish exterior there lurks a sheepish artist as well as an existential philosopher eager to prove that morality is a sometime thing, determined by a trigger finger's itch...
MIKHAIL TURNED and at once broke into a smile. "Rutger!" He cautioned me with a finger to his lips. "You must be careful. Raisa knows all about that nightclub in Reykjavik. She has spies everywhere." He handed me a big furry hat, a fake moustache, and a Politburo I.D. badge. "Better wear these...
From the determination with which he ate his hot dog, to the Super Bowl Ring-sized finger, to the agility he showed reaching into his pocket to extract the money for his greens fee, he had the tell-tale signs of a champion. But I did notice something odd; he seemed to favor his right rotator cuff when he lifted his golf bag. I wasn't surprised when, three years later, an injury to that self-same area knocked Jimbo out for the season. McMahon slipped out the door ostensibly because his tee time had arrived; of course...
...biggest and most unfortunate side effect of such demonization is that it trivializes the issue of race. Conservatives are no more (or less) guilty of contributing to racial problems than are liberals. By foolishly turning the issue into one of "them versus us," liberal finger-pointers hurt their own cause. If racism is seen only as "their" problem, and not as "our" problem, it will continue to plague us forever...