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Ruskin was the precocious child of doting parents, as Historian Joan Abse relates in this vigorous, compassionate biography, and his life through middle age was a struggle to free himself from their loving tyranny. "My mother had never let me play cricket lest it should quicken my pulse, step into a boat lest I should fall out the other side," he wrote wistfully. When he matriculated at Oxford, she followed him and took lodgings there, to oversee his physical and spiritual health. She was a fierce evangelical Protestant, and her husband, a prosperous and essentially self-educated wine importer...
...case, the declaration of martial law neatly fitted Moscow's immediate needs. On the one hand, the Soviets have been alarmed at the dramatic rise of Solidarity and at the aspirations of freedom that it has encouraged. On the other, they have no wish to intervene themselves, lest this cause trouble elsewhere in Eastern Europe, alienate the governments and Communist parties of Western Europe, break the Soviet-U.S. arms negotiations, and lead to a cancellation of Western trade. They are well aware, for example, that the multibillion-dollar natural gas pipeline deal they signed with West Germany this fall...
Hampered initially by a maddening lack of reliable information as to exactly what was happening inside Poland, and worried lest too strident a reaction might yet give the Soviets an excuse for an outright takeover, Washington decided from the start that its responses would indeed be primarily words. Through the early days, Haig and other officials confined themselves to restrained expressions of "concern" and cautiously voiced hopes that the martial law crackdown would only be "a temporary retrogression, not a change in the overall historic trend toward reform" in Poland. As one top diplomat explained: "We want to tread...
...Lest we forget, former Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, for his remarkable role in negotiating the release of the hostages from Iran...
...Lest I leave myself open to charges of chauvinism here, let me also say that I have no use for male cheerleaders. As a matter of fact, I honestly feel for them...