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Even for King, who seems to feel that taking a side on any issue is a definite path to getting canned, this was out of the ordinary. But later in the night, King had two guests, one pro-National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and one anti-NEA. He capped a two-hour-long debate between the two with this memorable remark: "Two able spokespersons for two vital causes...next, open phone America...
Often in the Reagan years, American covert operations (including those in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Angola) involved "lethal assistance" to insurgent forces: arms, mercenaries, military advisers and explosives. In Poland the Pope, the President and Casey embarked on the opposite path: "What they had to do was let the natural forces already in place play this out and not get their fingerprints on it," explains an analyst. What emerges from the Reagan- Casey collaboration is a carefully calibrated operation whose scope was modest compared with other CIA activities. "If Casey were around now, he'd be having some smiles," observes...
...eagle for a nanosecond or thrusting one's hindquarters left and right during a fleeting free fall. Skating at breakneck pace in a roller-derby throng around the perimeter of a hockey-size rink. Scuttling along a sheet of ice, brushing away bumps with a broom to clear the path of a flat, slow-moving stone. Or ducking one's head, bracing one's breakables and trying to hurtle faster than a sports car down a short stretch of sheer slope, sans turns, sans twists and sans breathing...
...path to medical school mirrors my parents' own path of immigration to the United States: the quiet self-sacrifice, the tremendous intellectual and physical burden and the eventual reward of a secure niche in America for the next generation. If this toilsome history is the source of the stereotype of the hardworking, academically motivated Asian-American, then I damn well better be proud of my background...
...staff falls into the predictable and easily taken path of rehashing old gripes and embarking on bashing the Undergraduate Council. But as the staff and LBJ before it said, this "government" is "the only thing we got." If the staff truly wishes to influence future council decisions, opinions should be cocouncilhed in relevant terms that stick to the issues at hand...