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...United States to walk out of the Rose Garden and shoot the Soviet Leader of the Month dead, the resultant high speed missiles would have implications more intense than anything that everybody's favorite fraternity brother could do by overdosing on hard drugs. That Woodward could so shamelessly liken his critics to Richard Nixon seems particularly offensive given that The Great Conspirator's most troublesome crimes entailed the extralegal violation of other's privacy: a Variety style list of enemies, illegal wiretapping and bugging, and other similar abuses...
...must wonder how Charles Krauthammer can call watching the cinematic wonder of Napoleon an ordeal, let alone liken it to running 100 miles over the Sierra Nevada...
Miami civil rights leaders called for the dismissal of Police Chief Kenneth Harms, 43, a 23-year veteran of the department. Harms' reputation for competence is high, although some city officials liken him to General George Patton because of his tough talk and brusque manner. Indeed, Harms lived up to that image by refusing to make mollifying statements that might ease the friction between police and blacks. "The police did not cause the riot," said Harms, who blamed "200 to 250 hoodlums" for the "robbing, looting and torching...
Nuclear activists say Harvard should divest of these holdings--or at least use shareholder resolutions to vote against nuclear weapons work--as a symbolic show of opposition to the arms race. Some liken the debate to the one over Harvard holdings in companies that work in South Africa--an area where student protests have secured a formal Harvard ban on investing in banks that make direct loans to the repressive Both regime. Harvard officials object that symbolic University gestures like divestiture actually strip Harvard of leverage over its holdings, an argument that can be expected to be transferred...
...portrayed in films, it represents real progress from the prissy sissies played by the likes of Franklin Pangborn and Grady Sutton 40 or 50 years ago, and from the self-tortured gays of The Boys in the Band and the monsters of Cruising, among more recent characterizations. Some observers liken the new gay movies to the Sidney Poitier period pieces about blacks: necessary non-evils designed to disarm the middle-class public by stressing a minority group's similarities to it as a (possible) prelude to more eccentric and individualistic portrayals. For the moment, at least, that...