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"At the Copenhagen summit," said a top-ranking American diplomat last week, "Europe will make its declaration of independence." That prediction is potentially true, possibly exaggerated. A Liberty Bell will not be rung in Copenhagen, but the statement of principles that is expected to come out of an extraordinary meeting...
Two Freaks. Cometphobia took another form during Halley's reappearance in 1910. Fearing that mankind would be poisoned as the earth passed through noxious gases in the comet's tail, many people bought gas masks and "comet pills" to prevent asphyxiation; they also staged a round of end...
SINCE THE PUBLICATION in 1961 of Robert Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey many have wished for an equally good English version of the Iliad, just as they were hoping in 1960 for an Odyssey to match the Iliad of Richard Lattimore. Fitzgerald admired Lattimore's translation so much that...
Sir / Mr. Agnew's prediction that he would not receive fair treatment in the courts has proved to be true. His punishment for a felony is a mockery of fairness and proves that "justice for all" really means "justice for most, unwarranted mercy for a few."
"What do you want Powers?" I snapped back, hoping to discourage his critique of my prediction performance.