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...rate, no matter what the reasons, Manuel Noriega has provided interesting insight into exactly what the Reagan administration will and will not actually put up with when push comes to shove. For example, despite Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No To Drugs," we now have tangible proof that Ronald Reagan actually "Just Said...
ECAC hockey coaches would be the authors of similar empty volumes if their collective humor and philosophical insight were compiled. How dull are some of the league's coaches...
Overall, however, Lee did give the viewers a fair insight into what life might be like at a Black college. And Lee managed to bring attention to the issues that have torn the Black community apart for years. He made a clear plea for Blacks to throw aside their differences and join together, united once and for all. Lee's message rang through every scene and was spotlighted in the finale: it is time for Black Americans to "wake-up" to their problems and together find new ways to solve them...
...Communist Party foreign policy line. "Grim Grom," he was called in the West, for his ever gloomy expression, which seldom betrayed what was on his mind. Now Gromyko, who was Foreign Minister for 28 years until taking the mostly ceremonial post of President in 1985, is allowing a rare insight into his thoughts. In Pamyatnoye (Remembrance), a two-volume, 850-page autobiography that is on sale in Moscow, Gromyko describes, among other things, the late Mao Zedong's proposal to use nuclear weapons against U.S. troops -- and his own brief infatuation with Marilyn Monroe...
...insight of Socrates, argued Leo Strauss, was that the rule of philosopher-kings was both necessary and impossible. The Republic, by this account, is really a massive excercise in irony, a lesson less in how to construct a utopia than in the limits of what we can reasonably expect from politics. Stone, attributing this interpretation to one "Alan [sic] Bloom", writes that, "Plato could hardly have spent his life spoofing himself...