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That specter has reinforced the Reagan Administration's determination to resist what it calls "a gift of power to the left." Pledged Secretary of State Alexander Haig last week: "We are not going to be active participants in the distribution of power that would abuse the interests of he people...
...troubles oozing away. Brandon fixes a snack in the kitchen. Meanwhile, Derek lurks in the bushes, watching all. When Brandon finishes slicing some cheese with a knife better suited to slicing through jungle, he rams the instrument into the remaining cheese block. Schmoeller cuts away, but he can't resist coming back and lingering on the knife in the cheese. You can guess what happens moments later. Derek stabs the unsuspecting Brandon in the back...
Asked to describe his politics, Loury said. "I resist giving an answer because it would do a deserve to the richness of my political views." He added, "I'm not a radical leftist, but I'm not a supply-sider either...
...other hand, if you go to law school you will meet people who are equally concerned about grades and jobs but who resist temptation, care about progressive social causes and send to fall in love with all the grace of high school sophomores Led by cuddly Jim Ivey the goodness clash with the bandies at a surrealistic summer camp for prospective law students run by hip woman professor and her crew of 3L's. All the while, Ivey is romantic good gal Ruth O'Day, who (get this) finally comes around and sees that...
Such banality in the face of danger should persuade us that the rich are ordinary people, not nobles who feel kinship with peasants. Able only to indulge their ordinariness to a greater extent than most, they mix common human altruism with much selfish silliness. But kindness, though common, resist lumping with the ridiculous mediocrity of Kahn's patrician materialism. As Whitney wrote in 1979, his philanthropic foundation helped those who "have lived with adversity in the form of poverty or discrimination. They lean toward a practical vision of helping friends and neighbors work together on common and immediate problems rather...