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...President nonetheless praised Congress for resisting "specialinterest pressure for still more red-ink spending." Republican Cohen saw the matter differently. He compared the conservatives who had supported the amendment, only days after voting for new spending projects in their home states, to St. Augustine, who had prayed, "Dear Lord, give me chastity-but not just...
...London's Egyptian embassy and the other at a golf club outside London; and a Caravaggio in an English country home. So renowned were his feats, it was said that financially hard-pressed British landowners dreamed of hearing the butler announce, "A Mr. Carritt to see you, my lord...
...often struck at the limitations with which men of power pay the price for their domination over man kind." So remarked Henry James after being snubbed at a 1915 dinner party by Winston Churchill. Then 40 years old, the bumptious First Lord of the Admiralty seemed fated to become the youngest Prime Minister in modern English history. But as the old novelist suggested, the cost of rising was exorbitant. Before the year was out, the promising Cabinet Minister was forced from government and self-exiled to the trenches in France as a common line officer. Destiny, observes Biographer Ted Morgan...
...dispute results from U.S. Supreme Court decisions. In 1962 and 1963 the court said that the Constitution's ban on "establishment of religion" ruled out New York State's recommended nonsectarian prayer and Pennsylvania's Bible readings and Lord's Prayer recitations. Just last January the court threw out a Louisiana law allowing students or teachers to offer their own prayers. Eight months ago, the Justices also refused to review a decision forbidding students to form in-school prayer meetings on their own before classes. Some states allow a "moment of silence" for students to pray...
...national rights which no occupation force can put down." The I.R.A. action was the most dramatic on British soil since last October, when two persons were killed and 38 wounded in a similar bombing outside Chelsea Barracks. It was the most stunning incident of terrorism since the assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Queen's cousin, when I.R.A. terrorists blew up his fishing boat in August 1979. Said Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "These callous and cowardly crimes have been committed by evil, brutal men who know nothing of democracy. We shall not rest until they are brought to justice...