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Brian Faulkner is Northern Ireland's shrewdest politician. The Rev. Ian Paisley is its most charismatic figure. William Craig may prove to be its most dangerous man. Whether Britain can peacefully rule the province, reports TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast, depends largely on the responses of these three contenders for Ulster's Protestant leadership...
...Nixonian rubric laid upon the Burger Court is "Strict construction of the Constitution." If history is any guide, critics will soon accuse the court of ignoring this mandate in favor of personal opinions or even partisan politics. And the shrewdest critics will be the nation's ablest court watchers-the legal scholars who often find the court guilty of faulty legal reasoning...
...their shrewdest and perhaps most effective single stroke of the campaign, Nixon and Agnew disowned Goodell ?loudly. Their purpose was to get liberals to switch from Ottinger to Goodell in sufficient numbers to defeat the Democrat. It worked exactly that way. Early polls showed Goodell with about 15% of the vote. The excitement caused by his feud with Agnew raised that figure ultimately to 24% in the election. Buckley got 39%, just two points more than Ottinger...
...Lautrec, she did not offer them to the public at an auction house or a public art gallery. Instead, through an intermediary, she got in touch with Private Dealer Charles Slatkin in New York, who bought all ten and eventually sold them to one of the U.S.'s shrewdest collectors. Not untypically in this secretive trade, the collector insists on remaining anonymous...
Insurance is a tough business, and its salesmen are some of the shrewdest. What's a nice guy doing selling insurance...