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...said a Government expert on Middle East affairs. "He had his own agenda, his own foreign policy." From Washington's viewpoint, it would also be best if Begin did not call elections in the foreseeable future because an interim government would probably only mark time, and thus precious months for negotiation would be lost. If, as is widely expected, Begin then won the election handily, he would be emboldened further to resist U.S. pressures...
Usually the Super Bowl has small chance to live up to a season's expectations, but there was precious little season this year, and relatively few expectations. National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle even called off his traditional gala the Friday before, an intimate gathering with a turnstile, because celebrating this year would be unseemly. Except for one city, Super Bowl XVII would always recall the time when the players walked out for 57 days, and some of the fans stayed away longer...
...sent the Mona Lisa to Japan; Los Angeles is asking Italy for the Riace bronzes to promote the 1984 Olympics. "We must have the courage," declared the former Italian Minister for Arts and the Environment Vincenzo Scotti in a speech in New York last November, "to send our most precious masterpieces out of the country." It would be better to pray for the divine gift of cowardice and fly the audience to Italy instead...
Harvard's most precious historical documents are secured two floors underground behind a steel door with a combination lock. There, they are regularly inspected by Harley P. Holden, the archives' curator. "I like to check these every few days," Holden says, as he opens up the large red folder that contains Harvard's original charter, drafted in 1650 but now stained and nearly illegible...
...that caught up with Ronald Reagan last week. He believes too fervently that a smash appearance onstage can obscure past mistakes and hold the political audience in thrall for a few more precious weeks. The press builds up the State of the Union as a sort of political Super Bowl. Public expectations rise far beyond what a President can provide. Reagan gave the audience a lot of his robust, even youthful, charm, but the substance was familiar merchandise hastily repackaged...