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When Secretary Shultz on This Week with David Brinkley insisted that there was "no connection" between the hostages and the prisoners held by Israel and that "it's important for us not to allow a group of terrorists to create a connection by asserting it," he laid the grounds for Reagan to claim he had not rewarded terrorism when the swap later came off. If this course was politically advantageous to Reagan, it was also part of a set of tactical understandings that were crucial to freeing the hostages. The press finds such unacknowledged arrangements hard to accept. It created...
...Brennan established." Further, when he is in the majority and the chief is not, his senior status gives him the right to name the author of the court's opinion. Rather than taking all important decisions for himself, Brennan frequently and diplomatically selects a Justice who occupies the middle ground...
...turn attached to industrial-strength rubber bands. Boiing! They bounce off the walls and fly at each other with comic, alarming force. Piing! They are catapulted into the dome's upper reaches, grabbing frantically for whatever weapon comes to flailing hand. Spriing! They're back on the ground, whaling away at each other. As their ever encouraging ringmaster says, "You know the rules: there are no rules...
Fiction once provided a stomping ground for the crazed or eccentric. When the ideal of civilized behavior combined decorum and good manners, books could offer an escape into the manias of Heathcliff, Ahab and Raskolnikov, or into the stubborn individualism of Gatsby and Huckleberry Finn. Heroes and heroines who would surely disrupt any public society could be avidly followed in private. But as daily life grows more clamorous and abrasive, as violence enters the home regularly by way of TV or flesh-and-blood carriers, serious fiction shows signs of moving in the opposite direction. Novels and story collections tumble...
Perhaps we have in the past dismissed the theater too hastily as a training ground for leadership. A renowned drama teacher and director, Father Gilbert Hartke of Catholic University, who has known Reagan for 45 years, believes so. Theater isolates and defines the human dimensions more clearly than anything else, says Father Hartke. A skilled actor with good character is instructed by the parts he plays. An actor, perhaps more than most other people, studies courage and failure and bravery and cowardice. "The success of an actor," Father Hartke insists, "depends finally on how much the actor really loves people...