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President Nixon was fond of British history. So it is fitting to close by paraphrasing the famous comment about Robert Peel written by one of Nixon's favorite historians, Sir Norman Gash. The analogy is overbroad, but the sentiment is entirely accurate: he brought China into the modern world, and his political opponents herded him out of office. As America enters a new and dangerous phase in world affairs, we will miss President Nixon, perhaps now more than ever...
...Jake S. Krielkamp and Alex J.LeVine, both juniors, along with Gian Neffinger'93 and Oliver Strauch '94. The record found itsway across the country; it was received warmly atBU, BC, Princeton, Columbia and even as far awayas Berkeley. Then someone sent a copy to Europe.The music pioneer John Peel, of "Peel Sessions"fame, played it on BBC radio, and suddenly BettyPlease started receiving fan mail from England andScotland. The record then made its way to Germany,where it also met with success...
Such objections were shared by a growing number of American lawmakers who seized upon the spy scandal as an opportunity to peel themselves farther away from the Administration's foreign policy and begin sniping at the President. In the Senate, Republican leader Bob Dole declared that the affair "threatens the foundation of our relationship with the new republic of Russia." Adding that the U.S. has "moved perhaps too far, too fast in assuming that changes in Russia have permanently altered the international landscape," he called for the Russian government to condemn its efforts to penetrate U.S. intelligence and, if evidence...
LYLE MENENDEZ, WHOSE RICH KID'S TAN has long since faded from his face, broke his pose as the grieving son to peel a thin smile from his limited supply. It was his response to the judge's announcement of the second deadlocked jury in the case of the two brothers on trial for murdering their parents. Menendez's attorney Jill Lansing later boasted about how she had introduced doubt into a case the prosecution had once hailed as open-and-shut murder in the first degree: "I don't think anybody at the beginning believed the possibility that they...
...Food Czar Michael P. Berry must be stymied by the fact that students just don't want to eat the chicken bones that come their way at least three times a week. And why, dining hall personnel must wonder, are we so reluctant to gobble up our banana peels, orange rinds, and apple cores? Odds are that these items are included in our daily food waste tallies. It's difficult to picture someone separating the grapefruit peel from the half-eaten doughnut...