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Moreover, the majority could not resist tainting an otherwise principled endorsement of free speech with its own gratuitous criticisms of Peninsula. In doing so, they wrongly introduce partisan rhetoric where it does not belong...
...next day I flew to Yalta. We met over meals. By then Stalin could not resist forcing liquor on people to get them drunk. Gottwald already had a fondness for drink, so Stalin didn't have to work very hard at getting him drunk. I remember Gottwald saying, "Comrade Stalin, why are your people stealing our technical secrets? They steal everything they can. We can see what's happening. It's an insult to us. We have no secrets from you. If you need some new technology or advanced designs, just say so and we'll give them...
LEONA HELMSLEY: THE QUEEN OF MEAN (CBS, Sept. 23, 9 p.m. EDT). Another season of ripped-from-the-headlines docudramas gets under way as Suzanne Pleshette plays the hotel harridan. Can you resist...
Some observers believe a new troika of power linking Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria will emerge in the region. U.S. analysts in Washington are doubtful. As they see it, Riyadh has been burned so badly by its neighbors that it is likely to resist Arab alignments and instead rely more on the West...
Wolff's novel does a superb job of illustrating the impossibilities of relying on dreams. Just when we think we have captured them, they slip through our grasp and leave us to beat on, boats against the current. Wolff reminds us of Fitzgerald's warning that we cannot resist being borne back ceaselessly into the past...