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...purpose of this bizarre procedure, as one top Democrat candidly explained, was to let legislators "cover their asses" with various interest groups by voting for hopeless proposals before getting down to serious balloting. For three days the rule actually appeared to work. As expected, the House rejected the four minor budget plans by large margins, and on Wednesday the coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats that had passed Reagan's budget last year seemed to be reuniting behind the resolution offered by the G.O.P. leadership...
Charm carried the original Rocky and, to a lesser extent, Rocky II. As Rocky Balboa, Stallone created an American hero: raised in the inner-city, coached by the owner of a run-down gym, Balboa appeared hopeless in his quest for the heavyweight boxing championship. Although he ultimately failed to capture the championship. Balboa proved himself a worthy contender. And throughout all the excitement and promotion, he remained a sensitive, unassuming man, falling in love with and marrying a shy, unglamorous, though caring, woman...
...mass communications. "Never," Aldous Huxley said, "have misused words-those hideously efficient tools of all the tyrants, warmongers, persecutors and heresy hunters-been so widely and disastrously influential." In the two decades since that warning, the practice of bamboozlement has, if anything, increased. The appropriate response is not a hopeless effort to cleanse the world of seductive words. Simple awareness of how frequently and variously they are loaded reduces the chances that one will fall out of touch with so-called reality. -By Frank Trippett
...sure, he is smart, energetic and an expert in criminal law, but so are others. What made Dershowitz the right choice is that he has become, perhaps, the top lawyer of last resort in the country-a sort of judicial St. Jude-the mouthpiece, or patron saint, of hopeless cases. Says Dershowitz: "I play the devil's advocate in court, sometimes representing true devils...
...Mamunes, 14, a gangling ninth-grader dressed in flannel shirt, blue jeans and hiking boots, knits his thick, dark eyebrows while putting the finishing touches on a computer program, already nearly 300 lines long. For those uninitiated in the special languages of the computer age, it looks like a hopeless mess of numerical gibberish. But when completed, these arcane instructions should produce a computer image of the heart detailed enough to show every major artery and vein, as well as valves and chambers. The electronic heart is part of a teaching tool George is putting together for eighth-grade biology...