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...Assad, one of the Arab leaders most opposed to Sadat's journey. Said the Premier: "There is no justification for the poison that comes from our northern border." While stressing that Israel disagreed with some points that Sadat had raised?the return of East Jerusalem to Arab control, for instance???Begin insisted that Israel and the Arabs should at least talk and negotiate. "Let us continue the dialogue and grasp one another's hands. Israel does not wish to rule...
...professional standards on the line. There are some situations in which leaks should not be printed. If the material contains real national security secrets?there are some?restraint is clearly called for. If a leak clearly violates accepted legal procedure?in a grand jury hearing or a trial, for instance???publication is justified only if it serves some obvious and overriding public interest. Such cases are rare, and the leaks that are all too common in criminal proceedings, though ostensibly published to satisfy the "people's right to know," often amount to sensationalism...
...eliminate those troubles, Skinner designed Deborah's crib with temperature and humidity controls so that she could be warm and naked at the same time. Besides the hoped-for results?Deborah never suffered from a rash, for instance???the crib provided an unexpected fringe benefit: the Skinners discovered that the baby was so sensitive to even the slightest change in temperature that she could be made happy simply by moving the thermostat a notch or two. "We wonder how a comfortable temperature is ever reached with clothing and blankets," Skinner wrote in a 1945 issue of Ladies' Home Journal. "During...
...other hand, we would seem, by the pessimistic sentiment prevailing, to have about1%, of the courage, three-fourths of 1% of the nerve, one-half of 1% of the force and power and one-quarter of 1% of the backbone of almost any other country?England, for instance???struggling along carrying gigantic debts and with millions of unemployed, without a murmur of complaint...
Friend W. Richardson of Californias "As he talks, especially as he becomes interested in one of his favorite topics?economy, for instance???he looks out at you from under extraordinarily heavy eyebrows, and his eyes snap and his brows twitch. He buries superficial crudities under a river of picturesque language, which flows from a mountain of facts. Suddenly, you do think that he's the Governor, and you understand how it is that in the end he 'gets...