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...sympathetic twinge or two for the former First Lady. Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography (Simon & Schuster) went on sale across the nation just as newspapers and TV newscasts began to revel in the book's most sensational allegations. Many bookstores sold out their copies within hours. Aggrieved parties cried foul, Johnny Carson made jokes and guardians of journalistic integrity shook their heads. The New York Times, which trumpeted the book's revelations in a long, uncritical front-page piece on Sunday, sobered up three days later with a condemning editorial. "Lightning rods have had it better than Nancy Reagan...
...January, Democrats solemnly warned that history would closely scrutinize the great gulf debate. Now, barely three months later, they indignantly cry "Foul!" when their antiwar words are recalled to them. How unseemly, they charge, to so manipulate a "vote of conscience...
...broken apart in midair in the past 22 months. The manufacturer, Piper Aircraft of Vero Beach, Fla., insists that the six-seat, single-engine plane is entirely airworthy. The Federal Aviation Administration has suspicions to the contrary and last week issued a directive grounding the 518 remaining Malibus in foul weather and limiting the ways the planes can be flown...
...makan: the Arabic language is capable of magical effects. On a squalid Cairo street early on a cold, foul day, people greet each other with small bouquets of words: "Morning of blessings! Morning of light!" They have conjured a moment, and smiled, and passed, and then, poof! they are back on a miserable street among the pariah dogs. If people are poor and live in the desert, language may be their richest possession: Why not? It opens miraculously onto other worlds. The Koran, with its bursts of sonority and light, describes a paradise that has everything the desert does...
...Tigers inflated their lead to 65-51 and after a non-call on the defensive end, a frustrated Delaney Smith was hit with a technical foul. Harvard then began one of its patented comebacks, but this time the Crimson fell short...