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...Bush Administration has been closely monitoring Gorbachev's ordeal. Ten months ago, the Administration engaged in secret diplomatic exchanges to ensure Gorbachev's safety and dignity once he resigned as President of the U.S.S.R. I know the story because I was, along with the historian Michael Beschloss, very briefly part...
...Bush's attempts to defend his record. (Perot, the consensus winner of the first debate, this time appeared vague and rambling, his folksiness turned wearying.) Observers noted Bush sneaking glances at his watch, as if impatient to get away -- perhaps from just the debate, perhaps from the whole painful ordeal...
Junior Eliza Parker won a grueling, three-set ordeal in the consolation round Penn's Barrie Berstein at first singles...
Lincoln not only had a vision but could mobilize others toward it. When people wanted to avoid the ordeal of change imposed by the abolition of slavery, he convinced a growing core of Americans that they had to face the new in order to preserve old values that they treasured. If they were not to give up the Declaration of Independence, with all it had come to mean as a sacred document, they would have to make some sense of its "proposition that all men are created equal." He reached into the childhood memories of his audience, to all those...
...tweed suits and wielded a Victorian ear trumpet like a snickersnee against enemies, real and imagined. That noli me tangere pose barely masked the inner Waugh: a self-lacerating loner who for a time, Stannard asserts, was certifiably schizophrenic. (The experience was transmuted in Waugh's strangest novel, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold...