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Deficits loom, defense decisions wait, diplomacy beckons; welcome back, sir...
...Helms emptied his pockets?some change, a silver cross, a Christian medallion?and talked about his curious perch in American politics. "Some folks say I'm scary," he says. "The people here don't think I'm scary." Two of his four grandchildren, capering in the yard, call him "Sir," but they are not scared. He does not want to be scary...
...Earl: Egad, sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows...
Randolph: I am glad of it. I hope you will always do it, sir...
...allowing him to have at you with the full force of his puny, flaccid mind. It is even more pleasurable to give than receive, to hone one's words until they gleam, and watch them fly in lovely arcs toward one's fellow creatures. How happy Sir Edward Coke must have been when he told Sir Walter Raleigh: "There never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou." How empty Whistler must have felt at the end of his life when he lamented that he had "hardly a warm personal enemy left." Naturally, such...