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...History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, but eventually decided against it. Said Mendelsohn, "If Kent-Brown was to debate any one, it should be the African National Congress. To let him feel he was participating in a debate when he could set all of the terms was foolish...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Vice-Consul Defends His Right to Speak | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

...free world was making gains in the war against terrorism. That war was declared globally and carried to the enemy almost exclusively by Reagan. The President struck back against fanatics who murdered the innocent. He pressured other countries to pursue suspected terrorists. Whether or not his heartfelt if foolish effort to trade arms for hostages, and with Iran, of all nations, will now encourage even more ( terrorism remains to be seen, but the betting is that the global village has come to understand that no society that seeks respect can support or tolerate the savagery of the Rome airport massacre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Bottom Line on Reagan | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...often been suggested by weak-minded theologians that we should abandon violent confrontation and settle our disputes through conversation or by playing a game of some sort, but this is foolish for we would still need an arms buildup in order to kill the enemy in case they cheated...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: A Call to Arms | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...that he had enjoyed his first visit to Cambridge, although he wishes people up here would learn how to walk better. It seems he and Jerry were walking through the Square when a woman right in front of them slipped on the ice and fell. "Don't you feel foolish," Gary said, as he began helping the woman to her feet. But as he said this, he himself slipped and landed in a puddle of ice-cold water. "Not as foolish as you must feel," the woman responded...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: OBSERVER | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...that we are in the 20th century, there is a lot of foolish talk that the final clubs should be abolished because they are anachronistic. Nonsense. Did the apes simply die out because they could no longer afford to pay the exorbitant fees for indecent exposure? No, they evolved into human beings who shortly developed fine clothing, thereby escaping these hefty fines...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG: | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

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