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...rare to collect a fallen meteorite," says Marvin. "They are precious samples...
Speaking by phone last week to an outdoor rally of pro-life activists in Washington, Bush repeated his devotion to the "precious gift" of life. The same day, the Republican Party announced that Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, a strong pro-lifer, would serve as chairman of the G.O.P. platform committee. But while Nickles is trusted by party conservatives, he enjoys a reputation as a compromiser, a quality Bush badly wants in his platform chief. White House moderates are still hoping to include wording in the platform's preamble that would make it clear that the G.O.P. is "nonexclusionary...
Just in case you can't get enough of those precious poseurs on American Gladiators, two new copycat challengers are headed for the airwaves. Knights and Warriors will pit villains like Princess Malice and Venom against challengers from health clubs everywhere. In Warriors on Wheels, players in souped-up vehicles will compete in events like Road Kill (shooting at passing targets) and Flights of Destruction (crashing their wheels). Slime Bomb we don't want to know about. Don't look for them...
...looking glass" that a one-time decision to withdraw 1000 Americans, as Kennedy committed to shortly before his trip to Dallas, out-weighs a long-standing policy that led to the deployment of about 15,000 others. In the course of a three-year war, such a move means precious little, and could far more easily have been motivated by a desire, for instance, to prod Saigon to greater self-reliance. As Johnson and Nixon would later prove, troop withdrawals were in no way inconsistent with war escalation...
...radiant two-part adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's autobiography, French writer-director Yves Robert imagines family life in Provence as a storybook dream: loving parents, adventurous but obedient children, an idyllic refuge every summer. This old-men's view of youth tells us that memories are precious because life is short...