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...State George Shultz remarked, nowadays "it seems as though reporters are always against us." White House Spokesman Larry Speakes quickly disavowed Shultz, only to have Reagan say what Shultz was merely implying - namely, that since the Korean War the press has not been on "our side, militarily." He should reread history: wary of potential opposition from a determined Republican minority to the sending of U.S. troops to South Korea, Truman never tried to get a resolution endorsing his "police action" through Congress. When Presidents act in emergencies without full legal approval of Congress, they risk confusion about whose side everyone...
...only 13 years), and his camera was a most fastidious voyeur, observing every ruction of sexual violence with sympathy at a distance. Döblin and Fassbinder were a perfect book-and-movie match, and the young director knew it. He read Berlin Alexanderplatz as a boy of 15, reread it at 20, and realized that "an enormous part of myself, my attitudes, my reactions, so many of the things I had considered all my own, were none other than those described by Döblin. I had . . . unconsciously made Döblin's fantasy my own life...
...Drake, the forlorn letters Hinckley wrote offered insight. "It just seemed like he was a sick white boy looking for someone to love him," she recalls. They reread aloud the note Hinckley wrote to Jodie Foster on the day of the shooting. "There is a definite possibility that I will be killed in my attempt to get Reagan," he scribbled. Glynis Lassiter, 42, a janitor at American University, argued that Hinckley was clearly insane "if he felt he was going to get killed and then he goes ahead and does it anyway." Copelin strongly disagreed. "Look at this," she said...
Layzer says that in his spare time this summer after writing a book on Cosmology, after starting a book on Chance and Order, after revising his course Science A-22 "Chance, Order, and Necessity," he will try to reread the Proust trilogy. He didn't comment on his work for the summer...
...prices for hard-cover books are high [March 22], but a ticket to a Broadway show costs two or three times as much for only a few pleasant hours, and that's it. You can reread a book again and again. You can lend it to family and friends. It looks nice on the bookshelf...