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...goods. Nixon should seek to reduce congressional weight on the conduct of foreign relations, because the punitive legislation that Congress has enacted drastically reduces the President's room for maneuvering. Washington might consider channeling assistance through multinational agencies to avoid charges of political string-pulling. That would help mute the charge that the U.S. cares only about preserving the status quo and all too readily supports military regimes...
Family Man. August, who sat mute and ramrod-straight through most of the trial, was pictured by his lawyer as an "upstanding family man" who "married his high school sweetheart." The patrolman admitted shooting Pollard when the youth "came at me." He also acknowledged making conflicting statements immediately after the incident, saying that he had feared that he would be blamed for all three deaths. Judge William Beer, in a highly unusual move, ruled out conviction on lesser charges and directed the jury either to acquit August or to find him guilty of first-degree murder, with a mandatory life...
...after a mug or two at the Wursthaus, kicking at snow drifts, and frightening couples with high-spirited shouts, pausing to t test each other's memory of obscure verses. It is only speculation, but perhaps in the end they were held together by their refusal to become the mute weighers of evidence that a proprietous respect for their profession demanded they be. They never pretend that the subject matter can speak for itself. "A work of history," Heimert says, "takes its coherence from the artistic skills of the author." When they write about the past, longing to become...
...heard, with deadening frequency, they are widely caricatured as rebels or prophets, venerable and unapproachable. They are accorded all honors except the simple duty of critical listening. As Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan laments upon realizing that her belated 1910 canonization was due to a stupid society's mute guilt rather than its compassion: "Woe to him whom all men praise...
...been this ceaseless warding off of despair, symbolizing his survival through disasters to which others succumbed, which has given to Ungaretti his remarkable capacity to speak amidst these silences and to shatter the mute world of Europe in the twentieth century...