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"The presence of the President is bound to add something to an occasion whether you like him as President or not," says Burr. "I hope we can find someone sufficently recognized and sufficently interesting--but there is a problem of time. It's hard to get someone of international stature...
Sometimes his own unrelieved sense of logic gives him trouble. Cuomo is exhilarated by the power of government but dismayed by its necessary politics. "I have to plead, cajole, rationalize, justify," he wrote out of exasperation last month in the diary. "I don't want that." He is only partly...
As a speaker, Cuomo is a modern master of the ancient art of rhetoric. His repertoire includes sarcasm, mimicry, hyperbole, irony, parables, analogies and allusions. He poses questions and answers them, sets up philosophical straw men and knocks them down. He begins slowly and gains momentum; he races up the...
The dark, somber photograph showing Andrei Sakharov in his Gorky apartment would stir interest under any circumstances. But it is especially notable since the photographer is the subject's wife Yelena Bonner. Taken in October of last year, the picture was released to mark her husband's 65th birthday this...
By turns gracious, outraged and somber, the Soviet party chief used the occasion to call for a global early-warning system that would alert the world in the event of future nuclear power mishaps. He also rather clumsily linked the dangers of atomic power with the threat of nuclear weapons...