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...Mills didn't want me to go back to work. Not because of the publicity, but because I promised him for the kids' sake I wouldn't go back to being a stripper. He told me I broke my word. I did. I will have to live with that...
Ideally, international sports competition would be apolitical--there would be no national teams. Each athlete or team would compete for the sake of individual or collective satisfaction and not to further a nation's glory and all of its self-interested policies. Since international competition is politicized, an athlete or a team must consider carefully whether competing in a particular event will help break down or further enforce deeply entrenched nationalistic interests in the international sports arena. If Harvard is not willing to make this kind of decision, it is up to the individuals on the Harvard crew...
...magnificent Pullmans with inlaid-wood furniture and three-star menus. There are other royal rides for those who like to look an English cowslip in the eye or find out for them selves that Mussolini did indeed make Italy's trains run on time. "For God's sake," adjures Frimbo, "get on a train...
...memos on Chile, which are cited in the Senate Multi-National Sub-Committee report, that "we must decide whether we, ourselves, are to return to fundamental principles on which this country [the U.S.] was founded, but also whether we are to stand firm for democracy for the sake of those friends of ours in Latin America who have based their hopes and aspirations on our strength. This is not a time to deny our own heritage, but is a moment of truth when we must stand erect and be counted."--"Our prestige is at a low ebb in Latin America...
...excoriate racism without subduing their own racists. In Buckley's fantasy U.N., too, Eastern European representatives would be required to ask Soviet permission every time they rise to speak. Buckley concludes that the world would settle for a little practical progress at the U.N., just for the sake of truth. As the Walter Mitty in him died, a U.N. reformer was born...