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WASHINGTON--IN THE SUMMER of 1979, Jimmy Carter was attacked by a killer bunny. He was fishing near his home in Plains, Ga., when a rabbit actually swam up to his boat, prompting the ex-Navy officer to beat it back with an oar. Brooks Johnson, then an Associated Press reporter, witnessed the bizarre event and wrote a story about it. The "killer rabbit" became a metaphor for Carter's faltering presidency...
...first rabbit out of his hat was his agreement to cut strategic nuclear warheads on each side to between 3,000 and 3,500 -- about a third of their present levels -- over the next 10 years. The reductions are as dramatic as the way they will be carried out: both sides will abandon outright their land- based multiple-warhead ballistic missiles...
CONRAD: I think the media also bear substantial responsibility for the frustrations people feel about government. Reporters are chasing every rabbit of scandal, and it's not healthy. Journalists have gone from a healthy skepticism to a destructive cynicism. The House bank story has got far more attention that it deserved. Meantime, virtually no attention is being paid to the $400 billion worth of hot checks being written by the Federal Government. I think the media fail to deal with substance in favor of any minor scandal that comes along...
Updike, the author of 14 novels and many short stories, won the Pulitzer Prize for Rabbit is Rich in 1981 and Rabbit at Rest in 1990. His book The Witches of Eastwick was made into a motion picture...
...Rabbit is Rich is, I think, oneveryone's list of greatest American works," saidBluementhal, who teaches Updike's novelSelf-Consciousness in his course. "He'sboth a consummate prose stylist and a reallybroad-ranging thinker and critic...certainly hewill go down as the essential American novelist ofthis period...