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...Mail photos of Princess Di in the exercise gym. The face-to-face confrontations between King and Prime Minister are epic battles of wills and words worthy of George Bernard Shaw. Yet Urquhart's monstrousness ! has taken on almost Shakespearean proportions; the murder that ended Part I continues to haunt him like Banquo's ghost...
...very least, the Clintons' choices of James and Susan McDougal and David Hale as associates call into question their ability to judge character. And the other questions raised by the affair could come back to haunt Clinton in his probable 1996 re-election run. It may be that the President and his wife are guilty of nothing wrong. All the more reason to agree to have a special counsel conduct a vigorous investigation that is free of any suspicion of bias. Unless that is done, no one will ever really know...
Coolest thing about living in the library suite: Well, there are ghosts from Radcliffe who haunt us. And we have a jar of gelfilte fish passed down by several generations of suite residents...
Those who do not love Fidel have few options: wait until he dies, or flee. Ricardo and Raul are scheming to escape by sea, when they are not drunk on bootleg rum. Quaffing cocktails and beer at Ernest Hemingway's old haunt, La Bodeguita del Medio in Old Havana, they rail against the system, unconcerned that they might be overheard. At 21, Ricardo is just out of prison after serving a nine-month term: he got drunk and spat on a statue of independence hero Jose Marti. Now he is officially a nonperson and unable to find...
...tendency to instill too much tolerance. A short and sweet example: By my senior year in high school, some of the world history teachers were already drilling into us the multicultural mantra, "Not better or worse, just different." Let's just say it came back to haunt them when we discussed the practice of widow-burning in India. The moral of this story? Any coherent argument for tolerance must allow room for critical disagreement. Tolerance should be clearly distinguished from indifference...