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...arise? In a new book, Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics, published last week by the Brookings Institution, Middle East Expert William Quandt, a staff member of the National Security Council during the Carter Administration and a participant in the Camp David talks, provides an insider's account of the flaw at the heart of Carter's greatest foreign- policy success. It is a cautionary tale about the frailties of diplomacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Frailties of Diplomacy | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...Tragic Flaw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sandinista Official Blasts U.S. | 3/11/1986 | See Source »

Wanda: I liked you better as a chauvinist pig, husband of mine. Your argument has only one minor flaw, Ralph: it's totally wrong. There is no clitoral party line, though easily threatened males may think so. The clitoris ! is the normal center of women's sexuality, and it is not our fault that it happens to be located in a spot that men find inconvenient. I bet that the article in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy is just more woolgathering about the G spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: On the Trail of the Big O | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...acoustic and the amplified instruments. Ghostly trills float above rumbling repeated figures, brasses punch out long discordant lines, and the shimmering whoosh of woodwinds fills the air. Repons is a journey into the soul of the 20th century, a harsh but exhilarating blend of music and machine. Its only flaw is that it does not go far enough. In 1981, when Boulez premiered the first 18 minutes of the work, the technology was still largely untried. What Repons needs now is to live up even better to its name, to offer a greater, freer and more apparent interplay among conductor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pierre Boulez: The Soul of a New Machine | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...even with these exclusively pre-freshmen events, John I. Kwan, from South Korea and Phillips Exeter Academy, felt the only flaw in the otherwise informative program was that he wasn't able to meet enough of his future classmates. "I made a conscious effort to try to get to know the other people here, but I was only able to meet about...

Author: By Timothy L. Feng, | Title: Wining and Dining the Class of '90 | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

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