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...Queen continued, turning to the matter of the Falklands war, "The support of your Government and of the American people touched us deeply and demonstrated to the world that our close relationship is based on our shared commitments to the same values." The Queen ordinarily avoids public statements that smack at all of politics. Expressing gratitude to an old ally suddenly seemed a major purpose of her visit...
...forced all parties to acknowledge the validity of these principles, an extraordinary act of leadership. The debate is on his chosen ground. The heated national arguments arose not over directions but on the timing and size of budget cuts for domestic programs and increases for weapons. Then Reagan ran smack into the oldest rule of Government: solving one problem begets another. Inflation went down, unemployment went up. The election results reflect a case of public shivers, a fear that Reagan is going to cure us if he has to kill...
...mean. The New York Times reporter found out that Cintra's grandparents on her father's side, Mr. and Mrs. Archibald C. Eglin, live in Bryn Mawr, which is not far from Philadelphia on a map of Pennsylvania. As for her other grandfather, Charles H. Baird, he lives right smack in Philadelphia...
...approach as an act of compromise. Surely others will focus their attention on the shades of mainline pop amid the bells and synthesizers. For the most part, though, this is not pop, but Jackson's unique blend of traditional jazz and some more contemporary styles. But often he does smack a bit too sentimental. Songs like the sappy, emotional "Breaking Us In Two" ("They say two hearts should beat as one for us...") prove a bit hard to swallow for those who rocked to and rejoiced in "Happy Loving Couples (ain't no friends of mine)." We're just...
...York City's posh Upper East Side. But while he paid no rent, perhaps he should have been charged some tolls. For Cruz had set up residence, complete with a salvaged bed, storage-crate furniture, a beer cooler and a stove made from an oil drum, smack in the middle of a 35-ft.-long traffic island on Manhattan's East River Drive. His presence immediately stopped a bit of traffic; passing motorists were enchanted by the sight of the eccentric tenant, protected from the elements only by the elevated southbound lanes overhead, and slowed down long enough...