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...Gross was in higher dudgeon than usual. "I couldn't believe my eyes," he told the House, "when I saw the Reverend Moyers, White House press secretary, gyrating halfway down on his knees, doing the watusi. The Reverend Moyers is another of those twinkle toes that inhabit the White House." At that, Baptist Bill Moyers, 31, inhibited himself into the depths of the West Wing and refused any comment on his performance at the Smithsonian Institution bene fit ball. White House Adviser Bob Kintner just burbled: "No matter what dance Bill does, it always comes out looking like...
...Senator Kennedy." Sulzberger wrote: "The Great Debate on Viet Nam policy has been featured by misinformation, passion, political opportunism, vanity, and hints of a smarmy dislike for President Johnson. What has emerged so far is a deep-seated doubt about ourselves and deep-seated ignorance of the world we inhabit. Elegant platitudes founded on myth are offered to the President as substitutes for policy...
...nation's population is jammed into 9% of its acreage. In all, 130 million people inhabit the 224 U.S. communities that are officially classified as metropolitan.* By A.D. 2000, 80% of all Americans-more than today's entire population-will be city dwellers. In those 35 years, as Lyndon Johnson has warned, "we will have to build in our cities as much as we have built since the first colonist arrived on these shores...
...because such a criticism relies on the assumption that "good guy" justices will inhabit the Court, I think a better criticism of Holmes would have gone in the other direction: take his philosophical skepticism to its conclusions and show how it conflicts with both social Darwinism and judicial restraint. Social Darwinism, after all, assumes that that which does survive ought to survive, which is heresy to a philosophical skeptic. The jungle or the "market place of ideas" is as arbitrary a source of truth as the Bible or the Constitution. And Social Darwinism also collides with judicial restraint because...
...most pressing issue between the two is the Kurds-the fiercely independent tribesmen who inhabit neighboring areas of both nations. For six years, Kurds in Iraq, led by Mustafa Barzani and seeking autonomy, have been in rebellion against the Baghdad government. Last week Barzani's guerrilla war had touched off an angry border clash between Iraq and Iran...