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...chronicled closed lives in open spaces with the kind of ascetic social realism you might find in a particularly earnest newspaper series, but they also had Springsteen's venerable empathy to warm them up and dramatize them. Fact and feeling mingle again on Devils, but not always in the proper proportion. The boxer on The Hitter who passes his estranged ma's house one night and mumbles, "I ask of you nothin', not a kiss not a smile/ Just open the door and let me lie down for a while," and the quixotic lover of All the Way Home, whose...
...instance, the equation is completely different. Within countries like Israel, there are dangerous places and there are places where life is almost completely normal. The fact that Harvard students are allowed to travel to the Indian side of Kashmir, yet are banned from studying at universities within Israel proper betrays the extent to which Harvard has overlooked the true dangers facing its students in favor of conforming to easily justifiable State Department warnings...
...starting reforms, they started to catch up. And they began to have results in one or two years' time. So our approach is not to force [the opponents of reform] to do anything. Our approach is that practice shows them their approach is not right and is not proper. That's why I say the reforms in the countryside are a successful experience...
...urged the President to work for their release by abandoning his policy against negotiating with terrorists. "You negotiated over the hostages from the TWA plane," the letter read. "We are asking for the same consideration. There is no alternative." The letters complained that the hostages were being held without "proper exercise, sanitation, fresh air or balanced diet." The White House reaffirmed its longstanding policy against negotiating with terrorists, but Administration Spokesman Edward Djerejian nonetheless declared that the U.S. was prepared to "talk with the abductors themselves to obtain the release of the hostages." CHINA Stop-and-Go Reforms...
...waiting nation. Mikhail Gorbachev will be getting ready to head back to the halls of the Kremlin, where he will weigh his impressions of the American leader. Soviet officials, newly savvy about influencing public opinion, and American officials, veterans in the art, will be struggling to put the proper spin on what took place in the first encounter between their two leaders--just as these officials spent the previous week trying to manipulate the expectations. After the 3,000 journalists who converged on Geneva file their final reports, after the last evening broadcasts by Dan Rather and Peter Jennings...