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...reflex in the United States has been to excoriate Israel on all fronts. But it is eminently hypocritical for a country which likes to bargain from a position of strength with its supposedly mortal enemies to condemn Israel for doing the same with its tangibly mortal enemies. Little attention and even less presciences to Camp David specifically and the Middle East generally has permitted the situation to deteriorate at a time when it should be improving...

Author: By Lawrance S. Grufstein, | Title: The Art of the Possibilist | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...simplicity are spared bad luck and go through life without any real problems." Hence, a softhearted young man fails to become his village's rabbi, and is chosen instead as its ritual slaughterer; sickened by his work, he must wrestle with the question of whether or not a mortal can be more compassionate than God. In Joy, an aging rabbi mourns the death of his daughter and loses his faith. He concludes that "the atheists are right. There is no justice, no Judge." But one dark mystery is supplanted by another. His lost child appears and asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wickedness and Wonders | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

While Cook was demonstrating his superhuman skills, the Crimson was looking decidedly mortal Harvard had trouble finding the midfield line, and the refs took great pleasure in calling numerous penalties. The passing was tentative, and most costly of all were the slashing and interference calls that gave the Blue Jays several man-up sitations...

Author: By Becky Hartman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Lacrosse Teams Go South, Drop Season Openers | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...House staff would be granted immunity from prosecution. Some Nixon supporters were certain that the statement ended Watergate. The culprits had obviously been discovered; the matter could now be left to judicial processes. In reality, the primary significance of the White House statement was to begin Nixon's mortal struggle with White House Counsel John Dean. Nixon was now throwing down the gauntlet by denying Dean immunity and attempting to deprive him of any hope of making a deal with the prosecutor to save his skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: THE FEAR OF GOD | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...boys" who might attempt to escape their responsibility by dumping on associates. Nixon asked out of the blue whether he should fire Haldeman and Ehrlichman; he was heartbroken, he said, even to have to ask the question. I was dumbfounded; if Nixon held that view, he must be in mortal peril. Not possessing any basis for judgment, I ventured a formulation from which I never deviated: whatever would have to be done ultimately should be done immediately, to end the slow hemorrhaging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: THE FEAR OF GOD | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

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