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...fully 500 of its 1,200 agents at the abortion-clinic incidents. The FBI has backed BATF with help on fingerprints and psychological profiles of likely suspects. Declared Webster last week: "If someone wants to call this a terrorist act in a semantical term, I'm not going to quarrel with it. I have offered the full resources...
There is of course, ample room for honest disagreement as to when the harm caused by individuals acting freely is so great as to justify the harm inherent in restricting them. My basic quarrel with Mr. Stevens, I think, is that he seems unaware that every restriction involves such a trade-off; once convinced of what's right, he assumes all should be made to conform, whether or not lack of conformity does great harm. The fact that the Final Clubs practice sex discrimination, simply as a matter of preference, is sufficient to persuade him (and the Committee on College...
...defense issues, especially regarding the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the more or less bipartisan approach to foreign policy that prevailed from World War II till Korea-some would say till Viet Nam-was neither typical nor natural. Yet there are special moments-this may be one-when the normal partisan quarrel over foreign affairs can be muted if not suspended...
...daughter Irène (Sabine Azema) motors in, abustle with gaiety and impish reproaches. She takes her papa to a country inn for a chat and one lingering waltz before nightfall; then, as abruptly as she came, Irène drives off to patch up a lovers' quarrel. Dinner, farewells, and a last reflection for Monsieur on his role as parent and painter...
...think there is a fringe, maybe two fringes out there, but they are fringes. I think there is a mainstream Republican Party that is very united around the type of thing that we have been advocating, and there is not any quarrel with them on wanting us to go forward on what we are doing. But I think there is a fringe that, yes, that is down a liberal side, and you can usually look at their voting record and find out that they don't very often support us. But there is also a fringe...