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Miller says summer school students ask "very direct, forthright,...conventional questions...they're asking for a variety of examples of what makes somebody interesting...
...remember that three months ago, Perot was just another TV talk- show guest, a blustery businessman who was supposed to chat with Larry King about the economy before a CNN special on breast implants. Asked at the outset whether he planned to run for President, Perot gave a typically forthright answer: "No." But 45 minutes later, Perot -- by all evidence impulsively -- dropped the biggest bombshell of the 1992 campaign. Yes, he'd run, and run hard, if his supporters would put him on the ballot in all 50 states as an independent. That "if" has been all but answered...
...were executed by shots fired at close range after they were wounded and defenseless. One cannot completely sympathize with a movement that does not either own up to the crime or prove lack of complicity in it. Nor can one entirely accept a movie that does not ask more forthright questions about...
DICK CHENEY HAS EARNED HIGH MARKS AS THE BUSH ADMINIStration's embodiment of square-jawed Western rectitude. But some in the U.S. military no longer see him that way. Though his forthright account of dozens of House-bank overdrafts while a Congressman satisfied most political observers, it did not wash with citizens of the more stringent military culture. Letters in service newspapers have pointed out that the armed forces would never have tolerated such behavior. Wrote an outraged correspondent in the Army Times: "There have been good troops put out of the services with a bad discharge for having committed...
...Down with democracy, eh Morgan?" reads a forthright late-1950s script in a copy of Edmund Morgan's The Puritan Dilemma, on reserve at Lamont...