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Reagan was reknowned for his ability to "visualize" games and--from scraps of paper--invent an absorbing world of heroic athletes. Listeners knew he was inventing the games, but pretended otherwise. It was more exciting that way. "There was a complicity in the make-believe," Wills writes. And why not? After all, a ball game had taken place, one team had won, and such-and-such a player had hit a home run while another struck...
...surprisingly short time the chemistry of our country's air has undergone important, refreshing changes. Only a blind man could fail to see it or call it a political fraud. Glasnost is not a deception. It is an evolution. Gorbachev did not invent it, nor did he impose it from above, as those in the West sometimes believe. In his desire to accelerate the development of openness and the economy, he is reflecting the historical imperatives that have emerged from our people themselves...
...first series of cases before the new disciplinary body, NITWIT, several new punishments are revealed. Two students are ordered to take Organic Chemistry, three are exiled to North House and the five charged with the most serious infractions are suspended until they can invent a plausible explanation for the $25,000 price tag of the guardhouse at Johnston Gate before they will be readmitted...
...Invent a stupid human trick for future presentation on Late Night with David Letterman...
...constitution we are expounding . . . intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." However, this quotation, achieved by melding two different . sentences eight pages apart, misrepresents Chief Justice Marshall's view. Marshall was not saying that courts may invent new constitutional values in order to keep pace with the times, but rather that Congress may "avail itself of experience, exercise its reason, and accommodate its legislation to circumstances...