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When one surveys the history of our nation, the White House has been at the center of our finest moments. Men risked their lives to defend it in 1812. During the Cuban Missile crisis men strove to avert nuclear holocaust from within its walls. As soldiers fought for their lives at Khe-Sanh, President Johnson monitored the situation from the White House basement. The greatest minds of the past two hundred years have labored at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in order to ensure that our experiment in self-governance succeeds. Bill Clinton turned the White House into an expensive hotel...
Gradually, that homely atmosphere has faded away, Sullivan says.CrimsonGrigory Tovbis"Harvard Square is not their private Disneyland," says JANET CAHALY, who, with her husband ALEXANDER, fought off a Defense Fund suit...
...conservative rivals took advantage of the massacre to pull back the reforms--or at least slow their pace. And as Deng retreated into a self-critical silence, they seemed to succeed. But Deng, though increasingly frail, fought back. In February 1992, sensing that the populace was exasperated by conservative austerities, he emerged from seclusion to rout his opponents. His stratagem: leading high officials on a tour of Shenzhen and Zhuhai, his prosperous economic enclaves. Nearly deaf by now, he urged Chinese to "seize the opportunity" of such go-go, free-market examples. The result was an explosion of economic growth...
...Archie Brodsky, a research associate in psychiatry and law, says opponents of the decision contend that Zinberg fought those with ill-informed views on addictions--a group in which they include McCaffrey...
...good husband, Odysseus demonstrates along with his kin a push-and-pull between family values and "being irritated at each other." And on a more somber front, Odysseus' station in life reflects the read-justments inherent to a post-war epic and the idea that wars can be both fought and eventually ended...