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...name adorns the gargantuan Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington. Congressional Republicans and all other D.C. travelers can now feel a warm glow as they pass through Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Earlier this week, PBS broadcast a four-and-a-half-hour documentary on Reagan. And, to complement your reading of Dinesh D'Souza's recently-published book Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, Reagan's official biography will be released next fall. Even The New Yorker, that bastion of liberal snootiness, recently published an article titled "A Celebration of Reagan...
...incident can better describe the feeling of being in over one's head than my experience shopping for classes this semester. I was interested in a particular seminar, although I suspected that my preparation for the course might not quite be up to par. But in the hazy glow of shopping week, I decided to give it a try. I hiked over to the classroom, hidden deep within that strangely inaccessible ring of studies and offices in Widener Library, and pushed open the door. As I scanned the faces of the ten people in the room, I recognized...
...fires set by the Aborigines in the movie of The Right Stuff. At the high end of the dark, the light from the astronauts' capsule winks as it orbits the earth, while down on the earth itself, the bonfires of the Aborigines glow white and spark...
...metaphor when he was host to Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair at a formal dinner in the East Room. Like a brightly lit ocean liner on a dark sea, the White House floated above the scandal for five hours, as 240 guests clinked glasses and basked in the glow of being rich, of being powerful, of being there...
...part, Castro skillfully extended his blessing over the visit, basking in the reflected glow of legitimacy, hoping to blunt any strong statements on human liberties with a display of openness and tolerance. He ensured that big crowds would greet John Paul by giving workers time off. He identified himself with the Pope's views on hunger, poverty and social justice. And he pressed Cubans to consider the visit primarily a show of support. "We're not here because he is the Pope," said Aimee Vaillant, a 26-year-old Havana nurse, "but because his visit is an honor to Cuba...