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...stability of the country that the American center, which is essentially where we want our Presidents to be, is so spacious. But there are drawbacks in this vast and vague consensus; presidential candidates and Presidents can evade the hard work of thinking out policy specifics and confronting the harsh choice between two good things...
Betancur certainly sounded nonaligned. Even his public remarks at lunch with Reagan, after their 45-minute private talk, were harsh. He said that Colombian products are denied full access to the U.S. market by tariffs, that the U.S. should prod the IMF to lend more money more easily to countries like his, and that industrialized powers generally renege on their vague, rosy promises to help developing countries. Alluding to the unaccommodating U.S. attitude toward Marxist Nicaragua, Betancur said that hemispheric interests are ill served "either by pressure or isolation." Reagan did not reply in kind. His speech, muted and conciliatory...
...most Santas are cheerful about the role they play each winter. Wallace stresses the importance of keeping the idea of Santa Claus in the 'minds of kids for as long as possible--"They will face this harsh, ugly world soon enough," he says. "If I can keep one more kid believing in Santa Claus another year it will be all worth it. I say every year this will be the last, but sure enough I'm always back in the sleigh...
...Kremlin for a host of actions, including the invasion of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union's human rights record. He defended U.S. trade sanctions, saying that "it is not realistic to isolate our economic relationship from our overall political relationship." Hartman's speech, which was unusually harsh for the ambassador, drew an immediate rebuttal from Georgi Arbatov, a fellow panelist and director of the Soviet Institute of the U.S.A. and Canada Studies. Denouncing Washington's talk about human rights as "hypocritical," Arbatov angrily criticized Washington's treatment of American Indians and its role in El Salvador...
Verdi: I would like Lady Macbeth ugly and bad; I would like Lady not to sing; I would like a harsh, stifled, grim voice. I would like Lady's voice to be diabolical...