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Senator Ted Kennedy's withdrawal from the 1988 presidential campaign [NATION, Dec. 30] is a healing gift to the Democratic Party. We can now have a winning ticket with New York Governor Mario Cuomo as presidential candidate and Virginia's former Governor Charles Robb as vice-presidential nominee. Nancy Means Columbia...
...spring of 1916, a 14-year-old San Franciscan was taken to see Yosemite National Park. There he was presented with a simple box camera. It was an epochal gift: over the next 68 years Ansel Adams was to become America's best-known photographer and a major champion of its imperiled wilderness. Even now, when every stump in creation has been subjected to a portrait sitting, his pictures retain the power to startle...
Among his other talents, Niebuhr had a gift for aphoristic paradox. He addressed the dilemma of the new nuclear age by decreeing atomic weapons to be "our ultimate insecurity and our immediate security." One of his best-known lines appeared in The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944): "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary...
...Chevalier predicts a year of improvement based on a policy consensus between the Socialist government and the conservative opposition, which is currently expected to win parliamentary elections scheduled for March 16. Growth should accelerate slightly from last year's meager 1.4%, to 2.1%, because of what Chevalier called "a gift from abroad"--lower oil prices and a cheaper dollar. Inflation in France will dip from 4.9% to 4% this year, while unemployment will edge...
...When the Cowboys called, looking for an emergency replacement, Smith was 38. "I promise you, I was like some old boy in his living room thinking, 'Man, I'd like to be down there with the Dallas Cowboys.' Suddenly I was, and it came to me what a great gift it is to have the ability to play. I was given a little slot of time back to understand this. One pass can't take that away from me." XIV Pittsburgh Steelers 31 Los Angeles Rams...