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Olson, seeing the gift, stole the puck at center ice, drifted into the Laurie zone unhindered, and flipped in an insult-to-injury empty-netter at 18:56, for his second unassisted goal of the evening...
...hostages in Tehran to certify that they were all in good physical health. A jubilant Carter asked Mondale to tell congressional leaders that release was imminent. But then, hour after hour, the flight to freedom failed to take off, apparently because the Iranians wanted to hand Carter one last insult...
...were to take all of Reagan's qualities?the detachment, the self-knowledge, the great voice and good looks?and project them into the White House, he would have a first-class B-movie presidency. That is no insult. The best B movies, while not artistically exquisite, are often the ones that move us most because they move us directly, through straightforward characters, simple moral conflicts and idealized talk. Reagan once called himself "the Errol Flynn of B movies," which was astute (except that Errol Flynn was also the Errol Flynn of B movies). The President who remains above...
...outgoing U.S. President has taken the hostages' continued captivity as a personal, as well as national, insult. "The human element of this crisis has touched him emotionally just as it has the American public," said one of his aides. "The only difference is that he feels personally accountable for those 52 lives." Indeed, since his defeat in the November election, Carter has devoted much of his time to the technical details of the negotiations with Iran through Algerian middlemen. He had hoped that he might yet succeed in freeing the Americans and give his presidency something of an upbeat...
...ultimate insult to the blue-collar workers standing in long lines at the unemployment office will be a Civil Service robot electronically reporting, "Your claim...