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Combining an ease of manner with a touch of the patrician Yankee and an impressive intellectual grasp, Bush does not excite his audiences; he reassures them. Emphasizing his considerable foreign affairs experience (CIA director, Ambassador to the U.N. and China), he criticizes Carter for overemphasizing human rights and calls instead...
To Americans, the world's judgment seems to be rigged up to a perverse double standard. Let only a rumor waft through, a propagandist's mischievous fantasy about the CIA's organizing the attack on the Sacred Mosque at Mecca, and rioters swarm like film extras against...
The American people do not seem upset with the muted reaction of U.S. allies. When asked if they agreed that "the Iranian situation has shown the U.S. has no real friends in the world," 71% said they disagreed. A similar majority (72%) felt Washington's reaction to the crisis...
Will Barnet: 27 Master Prints (Abrams; 63 pages; $12.50) offers a sampling of work done over the past decade and provides fresh evidence of the artist's versatility. His lithographs employ a broad palette of muted, pastel colors, while the serigraphs are built up from large blocks of flat...
Spending almost as much time up or down a man as they did at full strength, the Crimson "special teams"--the penalty-killers and power play--were put to the test. Some awesome B.U. defense muted the icemen while one man up, but equally stellar penalty-killing by the Crimson...