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...Freedom, for all of its noise and confusion so evident at the Geneva summit, imposes standards of behavior for those who want approval in its open bazaar. Boors and bullies are these days most often put down in the long run of events...
What happened in Geneva was participatory summitry. Reagan went about his business as he always does in that environment, firmly rooted in Thomas Jefferson's doctrine that freedom is a God-given right and James Madison's conviction that some participants will try to corrupt freedom, but more will try to protect...
...said. Even when he was asked about Andrei Gromyko's characterization of him as a man with "iron teeth" behind a nice smile, Gorbachev declined the old role. "It hasn't yet been confirmed," he said. "As of now, I'm still using my own teeth." Reagan's friend freedom was surely watching, and Gorbachev felt...
...Anglican lay associate, Waite was drawn to the church, he has said, for "its passionate coolness, its mixture of authority and freedom." The son of a policeman, he grew up in the northwestern English village of Styal. He took a degree at a church college and headed to Uganda in 1968 as an adviser to the local archbishop. He and his wife Frances, who have three daughters and a son, were once held at gunpoint during a mass expulsion of foreigners following Idi Amin Dada's takeover in 1971. After working in Rome as an adviser to the Vatican...
...inaccessible to scholarship may simply be invented. On the other hand, a story of a made-up person can hardly rely on the fame or noteworthiness of its subject to attract and hold readers. So the writer who takes up this curious, hybrid genre assumes a mixed blessing: the freedom to fabricate reality in service of a goal that many may find inconsequential because it is not true. In his eleventh novel, Canadian Author Robertson Davies tackles precisely this problem and turns it into a triumph. What's Bred in the Bone not only shows how biography could be written...