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That's the gist of the argument when it comes to Buchanan and anti-Semitism. As he pointed out last week, some of his best friends are Jewish. And Buchanan has condemned anti-Semitism, once comparing it to pornography. Yet there are times when he's not averse to showing some cleavage, enough to lead William F. Buckley Jr., the paterfamilias of modern conservatism, to conclude four years ago that "it is impossible to defend Pat Buchanan against the charge [of anti-Semitism...
...most serious matter--control of Russia's nuclear weapons. Moscow sources told TIME that last Thursday the President's closest advisers convened an urgent meeting in the Kremlin. Among those present was Alexander Korzhakov, the former KGB officer who serves as Yeltsin's top bodyguard and crony. The gist of the meeting was that under no circumstance should the briefcase containing the codes for Russia's nuclear arsenal be transferred to Chernomyrdin. That briefcase is with Yeltsin in his hospital room. Korzhakov is one of the few people who have been allowed to see Yeltsin...
This instance of collective punishment flatly contradicts the "Fair Treatment Guidelines for Holyoke Center Public Spaces," an agreement worked out by the same groups who authorized the building of the cage. The gist of this document is summed up in these excerpts: "All retail patrons and the general public must be treated equally with courtesy, dignity, and in a non-discriminatory manner...past behavior cannot be the basis for refusing patronage other than to those who have repeatedly not respected these guidelines." In other words, actions of one homeless person should have absolutely no bearing on the subsequent treatment...
...Francisco Chronicle. Tyler was responding to a letter he had received from the Unabomber that came with a copy of the terrorist's as yet unpublished 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto. The correspondence followed remarks that the professor made about the case to the press. The gist of Tyler's message to the Unabomber: your manifesto raises some valid points, but none that justify blowing people...
Fortunately for those of us who hadn't had agood meal recently, they chose to find facts overlobster savannah at a private room at Locke Ober.As I recall, the gist of their report on ourreporting was that, like all journalists, wesometimes screwed up, but the paper wasn't beingrun by SDS. The complaining alumni went away, andsome financed the Harvard Independent instead...