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...Mortenson warns that if the Supreme Court fails to uphold the former President's position in Halperin, any President could be "fair game" in the future. Jimmy Carter, for example, could be sued by any Olympic athlete claiming his career had been blighted. That legal logic does not impress Bruce Ennis, the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents Halperin. No judge, he suggests, would allow a former President to be hauled into court unless the need were compelling. Ennis sees a different danger: "It is not proper for a President to be above...
...Faculty discussion: "Liberal Education at Harvard." Delivered in Ishmaelian tones by Alan (tradition-minded master of Eliot House) Heimert. Don't try to impress everyone by asking a question. Check it out, but sit in the back just in case it doesn't suit your fancy. Don't bring notebooks--classes don't start for nine days...
...world is little more than a plaything people by toy dolls. Indeed, in several of the scenes in which he does not figure, Moriarty remains quietly on stage left, observing the game as it is played out. But there are times when Richard should convey a demanic drive, should impress us with a larger-than-life size. Instead, we have a chap who becomes nauseated on seeing Hastings' severed head; who, on speaking the famous line, "Off with his head--so much for Buckingham" (written not by Shakespeare but harmlessly interpolated by Cibber in 1700), underlines the second half...
Experimentation, trial and error, mean as much to Roger as to any rats and pigeon man. Experience shows that young men out for the evening with their girlfriends present the best targets. If they want to impress with their sensitivity, they will hand over some change, or even a bill. And if they've had a little much to drink, if they want to impress with their meanness, often their companion will talk them...
...proposed Cabinet reshuffle backfired. Two partners in the coalition, the Democratic Movement and the National Religious Party, objected both to Begin's failure to consult them in advance and to the selection of Moda'i, who did little to impress his critics when he informed them in a meeting that "I'm 90% qualified." At the same time, Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, a former general and the leading hard-line proponent of Israel's incendiary settlements policy in the West Bank, threatened to resign if he did not get the Defense Ministry himself. Begin explained...