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...cheering fact that without his presence the British government would be spending still more of the money it so patently lacks. He may then view his summer in the light of a charitable contribution to the British economy and return to his native climes in a rosy glow of pleasant self-righteousness...
...they appear with their hands clenched, facing Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline. So it was last week with Gary Hart, as the defrocked candidate tried out his first tentative TV steps on the road to rehabilitation. That such a cathartic spectacle was inevitable did not make the show pleasant to watch. Doggedly Hart went through the rituals of redemption: he used the phrase "serious mistake" four times, "bad judgment" three times, and twice confessed his "sins." He even acknowledged, months after it ceased to have any conceivable relevance to the public debate, that he had not always been "absolutely...
...derbies and bowlathons and the like to help Beverly James compete. She is the tenth of twelve children -- "eight of whom have finished college," her mother Penny says with pride -- and her father Roscoe has Parkinson's disease. Beverly, 19, who functions at a second-grade level intellectually, is pleasant and mannerly, but she is shy. Townspeople collected enough money to send her mother and two women coaches along for support. Last Tuesday afternoon she hit her start on the button and ran a fast 8.7 50-meter dash, her personal best by 1.9 seconds, good enough for a bronze...
...stomach." He got a Sunday-morning appointment with Reagan to tell him about the proposal. Poindexter had testified that Reagan approved the nine points as a bargaining tool. No way, said Shultz. "I have never seen him so mad," said the Secretary. "He's a very genial, pleasant man, he's very easygoing, but his jaw set, and his eyes flashed . . . In that meeting I finally felt that the President deeply understands that something is radically wrong here...
...someone unfamiliar with the detailed story of the Constitution's birth, no book better combines the virtues of logical organization, responsible brevity and pleasant reading than A More Perfect Union. Though neither constitutional scholars nor well-read dilettantes are likely to discover previously hidden treasures here, they will find a uniquely clear guide that keeps an orderly hand on the chronology of the convention, as well as on the evolving roles of the principal actors...