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Back in October, that trait was easy to overlook--Haig was only a tough-looking general with visions of grandeur and Reagan was an unemployed ex-governor. Now Haig is the President's Secretary of State, a post which, as many presidents have stressed, should never serve as one man's bully pulpit or stepping stone to the Oval Office. As recent events have shown, Haig has yet to learn that lesson...
...When the student is not in, you enter the room because the job has to be done." Geddry said, adding "No one is infallible. We all make mistakes. The administration looks the other way when students put posters on their walls, and student's should overlook the mistakes workmen make...
...Last year not one kid missed any games because of an injury," Scalise says. No players injured seriously enough to miss games through last season's 14-game schedule. And four players felled in four games so far this year. It's hard to overlook such a disparity...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM is the El Cid of the musical theater. He oversteps bounds, and the audience excuses him because his work is so good. The musical quality of Side by Side compels audiences to overlook the fact that the evening constitutes a self-conceived monument to the artist. There is nothing new or creative in Side by Side, a revue of songs from musicals for which Sondheim wrote lyrics and some of the music, punctuated by explanations and anecdotes slipped in by the show's narrator...
Before deciding whether to support Black guerrillas, he examined passive resistance to determine its motive forces and utility in Rhodesia. And in The Riddle of Violence, he presents his conclusions: Rhodesia lacked the elements to make a non-violent struggle feasible. He points out what single-minded moralists overlook: nonviolence, by itself, can be a total failure. For in Nazi Germany, the Jews died, regardless of passiveor active resistance. Use of this example led Kaunda to conclude that one element necessary for a successful non-violent struggle: some morality in the ruling establishment. If the oppressors will kill anyone...