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...either. A lot of parents tell their kids not to smoke cigarettes and they smoke cigarettes. Or they give you some idea of sexual modesty -- but my father lived that way. He believed that making love to someone is a very sacred thing and it shouldn't hap- pen until after you are married. He stuck by those beliefs, and that represented a very strong person to me. He was my role model...
...then Reagan had no choice. If he still wanted sweeping cuts in civilian spending, he would have to swallow a budget resolution that included a provision for what he called "zero growth" for the military: no increase in Pen tagon outlays next year beyond what is necessary to keep up with infla tion. Nothing else could squeak through the Republican-controlled Senate--and even so, the vote scheduled on Thursday was going to be breathtakingly close. The President finally said yes, and Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole quickly spread the word. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who had turned Reagan...
With that, relations between the U.S. and the Sandinista government sank to a new low. The change came at the stroke of a presidential pen, under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The law allows the President to impose sanctions without congressional approval on declaration of a "national emergency...
...rich host o: "selves." It is a pity that they are all sapped and leveled by the author's uninteresting prose. We can only hope that there will soon be an Oxford Book of Diaries where Thomas Mallon will be able to exercise his fine discretion if not his pen...
...greedy little kids cried and should for some tangible members from their trip to the ballpark. I wanted to tell them who was they were yelling to, to shut up and have respect-go bug the rag-arm warming up in the Red Sox pen, but don't disturb this guy-he's special...