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...STARE AWAY at Michelle bathing, at Manon padding about the house in torn outgrown pajamas, at Guy sweating and drooling in his sleep. The movie is so permeated by the crisp snap-crackle-pop of late autumn in the mountains, so unabashed before the imperfect facts of life (like flat tires, cracked boots and dirty dishes), that the ugliness takes on an indefinable glow, Les Bons Debarras tells it like it is, but in the process manages to make it magic...
Corruption exists, and probably always will, in this obviously imperfect world. But should the U.S. participate in it? Bribery on the global scale that is now occurring is costly, saps political vitality and can eventually undermine a people's trust in government. The regimes of the Shah in Iran or General Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua are testimonies to the problem...
...results for many people from the start and for almost everybody in the decade of America's greatest economic collapse. For the next 40 years bureaus sprang full-blown from the heads of Democrats, as our nation decided that only collectively could it solve the enormous problems of an imperfect society. But that consensus began to falter in the late 1960s, when Americans chose Richard Nixon, and in 1972, when they chose him again, emphatically. Watergate intervened, throwing an election to the Democrats. But then came Proposition 13, and inevitably behind it Ronald Reagan, the Kemp-Roth...
...large number of electoral votes in western states as a key factor in what he believes will be a Reagan victory. Although he allowed that a well staged hostage release might affect balloting, Nye discounted the possibility of a Carter victory, calling negotiations with Iran "too late and too imperfect...
Leaders must believe in power, he says. They must have a sense of majesty, possess dignity, a touch of poetry and at the same time a tolerance for what is imperfect. "Too often these days we have developed self-hatred because we have had to act imperfectly...