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...considered as we sat there during the tense period. It was like being asked by the Pope if you believed in God, or turning in CUE forms before grades are handed out. His position was inherently part of the information which each of us used to weigh the pros and cons...
That is not exactly what old Simcox had in mind when he dreamed of the future. Nor does Mortimer seem especially enamored of what his country threatens to become. But Paradise Postponed is a remarkably judicious presentation of pros and cons, and extremely funny besides. Near the end of his life, watching TV reports of the war for the Falkland Islands, Simeon complains to his wife: "What we're doing is going round in circles. I mean, is this where we came in?" To enter this novel is to join an eddy of wisdom and comic resignation...
After he was drafted in NHL amateur draft following his freshman year, Blair was also starting to think about the pros. His distinctive stand-up style had won him admirers and was cleary suited to the pro game...
...politician. He was Marion Gordon ("Pat") Robertson, 55, head of the Christian Broadcasting Network and a fixture on CBN's four-times-a-day The 700 Club. Robertson, a Southern Baptist, has been transmitting signals that he might join the race for the Republican nomination to succeed Reagan. Political pros are uncertain how big a factor he could be in the primaries, let alone the convention, but they are convinced that he could energize the Christian right and siphon votes from other candidates. True believers are tingling at the prospect. As ROBERTSON IN 1988 buttons blossomed, the amiable Virginian took...
...thing that has been so enriching about this is that the pros I have been working with are extremely generous people," he continues. "They are coming here because they care more about AIDS research than about appearing at Harvard...