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After the second Columbia game, Ferry could only shake his head in disappointment and remark. "I don't know what happened--I don't know what...
Whatever the results of the Sandinista peace campaign, the Administration's tough tone seemed to focus congressional opinion, but not necessarily in ways that the White House liked. Before Ortega's statement, House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a Democrat, weighed in with a stern reply to Reagan's "uncle" remark. Said O'Neill: "The U.S. has played 'uncle' in Latin America for far too long. It is time to play brother." Speaking to a group of Canadian business executives during a Time Inc. news tour in Washington, Delaware's Democratic Senator Joseph Biden charged that "we have simply been lied...
Noonan credits a remarkable extension of bribery laws to a remark- able source: the Nixon Administration. Stretching precedents, Nixon-appointed prosecutors invoked the Hobbs Act of 1946, originally aimed at union racketeers, against the Democratic Kenny machine in Jersey City. When the convictions were upheld, federal prosecutors brought similar charges against local officials throughout the country, thus beginning what Noonan calls "an effective federalization of the law of bribery...
...criticim, it's a biography Beautiful done," Barthes remark on George Painter's Proust in another interchange. Yet another is a sense ion which biography, or seeds of biography which rest in the interstices of these questions and answers constitutes a type a protocriticism--not so much a voyeuristic attempt to divine the "real" writer behind the text, to pry into the realm of his "personality" in the hopes of somehow catching him "off-guard," but, in the senses, rather, of a self-reading, a reading of the body of one's own writings, the writing...
...Kinnock called her handling of the crisis an "epic of bungling indecision." Two weeks ago, Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham, aggravated the tense situation by telling reporters that they could be "absolutely certain that we are not going to defend" a particular value of the pound. That unfortunate remark helped speed the currency's slide and forced Thatcher to abandon her hands-off policy...