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Ponto feels strongly about European economic integration: "It is simply too rational to fail." He is less optimistic about the development of East-West trade: "The question of true mutual exchange of goods must be judged much more skeptically. The Soviet Union can supply the West with raw materials, but...
The rational response to all this seemingly nonsensical noise is to ignore both sides and either follow the football team or do your Mongolian homework.
Although he concedes his feelings on the question are "perhaps more emotional than rational," von Stade believes there is a certain biological inevitability behind men having a role of greater leadership in our society. "My argument is speculative," he contends. "But it's also based on a certain amount of...
Missouri Governor Warren Hearnes, no close friend of Eagleton's, had an explanation: "It is hard for people not in politics to understand Eagleton's position. Eagleton's lifelong ambition to be Vice President overshadowed any rational consideration."
The canoeists have grown gradually more isolated from their smug idea of civilization. This episode of brutality and reprisal severs what few connections remain. Drew (Ronny Cox), the most rational of the four, wants to bring the murdered mountaineer downriver to the police. He believes that they will all be...