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...argument and consultation. The past is shimmeringly changeable, always different with every change of angle, of perspective. Read the history of the Civil War from the South of perspective. Read the history of the Civil War from the Southern point of view, or of the American Revolution from the standpoint of the English. The past has almost as many possibilities as the future...
...despite all of their hardships and disenchantments, despite their fascination with the world beyond their borders, most Soviets remain essentially apolitical and certainly patriotic ?an ideal combination of attributes, from the standpoint of the state. Their principal concerns are fairly familiar among people the world around: making ends meet, getting ahead as much as possible, staying out of trouble. The West is much more enticing to them for its image of material abundance, physical comfort and sense of vitality than for its democratic values, intellectual freedoms and political institutions...
Because of his newspaper's "moderate" standpoint, Shah maintains, his daily is not likely to run afoul of the law. He regards the government's "code of conduct" as necessary to prevent papers expressing foreign views from eroding the stability of the monarchy. "Because alien resources are at their disposal," he says, "if you give them absolute freedom, are they going to have objective considerations without alien social and political bias dominating their news? Ninety-eight per cent of the people subscribe to the two symbols of Nepal: our monarchy and independent constitution. The remaining two per cent...
...another $1 billion that day alone. But even at the late Thursday price of a bit more than $10, it would still have been worth more than $2 billion, assuming they could sell the metal without pushing the market even lower. Says one blas Dallas commodities broker: "From my standpoint, this is no surprise. The Hunts have made or lost $1 billion on more than one occasion...
...when he temporarily stayed the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for giving the U.S.S.R. atom bomb secrets; in 1966, when the thrice-divorced Douglas, then 67, married Cathleen Heffernan, then 23, and was accused by Kansas Republican Robert Dole of using "bad judgment from a matrimonial standpoint"; and in 1970, when House Minority Leader Gerald Ford accused Douglas of accepting a salary from the Parvin Foundation, which was set up by a man with links to Las Vegas gambling...