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...nuclear agreement on the table, the first-ever delegation of North Korean officials to enter the U.S. arrived in Washington today to discuss the opening of diplomatic offices in each other's capitals. Even though congressional Republicans (and a few Democrats) are still grousing that the accord was a giveaway, the other side now seems effusive: "The trend toward a full-scale improvement in North Korea-U.S. relations will never be reversed." Pyongyang Radio said...
...reference to good old Alan Brinkley (flourit 1987) is a dead giveaway. Could any Harvard undergraduate pick him out of a police lineup? Doubt it. I confidently expect still to be hearing about old Alan as one of History's missed opportunities when I retire in 2025. Dear old fellow! Good old Crimson! So jolly dependable...
Harold Baratz, like many offspring of immigrants from Eastern or Southern Europe, wanted desperately to be seen as American. For years he complained that his name was a handicap, often misspelled or mispronounced, a dead giveaway. His brother Samuel had rechristened himself Bill Barzell. That was too exotic for Dad, who did little but grumble about our foreign-sounding name until I started to get bylines on my high school paper. That did it. Not long after my bar mitzvah, he went to court and got a writ requiring the world to call us Barrett. In journalism, he assured...
...preventive care, including physicals and baby checkups, and some controversial procedures like abortion. But it would exclude cosmetic surgery, eyeglasses and borderline therapies, such as weight reduction. The mix was critical: too skimpy a package would anger the middle class; too rich a proposal would spark charges of a giveaway...
...part of the problem or that b) maybe at least some of the people with a zillion dollars in the bank aren't all bad. Either way, everything feels compromised, corrupted. The phone rings. It's Philip Morris -- they want to sponsor your next tour, hold a cigarette giveaway in your name. And do you mind a double billing with Billy Ray Cyrus...