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...cannot compensate them for their possible losses. Britain, whose ties with southern Africa are even closer, has been still firmer. When Zimbabwean Prime Minister Robert Mugabe called for South African sanctions at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting last October, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher replied with a stern and stinging warning. "If you want to cut your own throat," she said, "don't come to me for a bandage...
Alas, it is true. James is a rare combination of amateur logician and sociologist, stylist, humorist and stern moralist. In fact, much of the joy of reading him comes from the extravagant spectacle of a first-rate mind wasting itself on baseball. Is baseball 75% pitching? No, it isn't, and James will show in a page or so that the proposition makes no more sense than saying "Philosophy is 75% God." Are the good teams the ones that bear down in the crucial final innings? No. The Cardinals and Blue Jays would still have won their divisions last year...
...average, each of Cuomo's four budgets has grown by double the inflation rate; his 1986 budget is 30% higher than his 1983 budget. The number of employees on the state payroll has increased by more than 24,000 during his administration. Notes William Stern, former head of the state's Urban Development Corporation: "Mario believes in government activism. That means spending rather than cutting." Jack Kemp has dubbed the Governor "Status Cuomo." Cuomo, says one official who left the administration, "never tackles real change...
...were expected to string miles of red and blue ribbons and rope. Cars and trucks were to be lined up trunk to hood. At week's end an armada of catamarans and sailboards hauled to the site by their owners made a surreal sea as they floated bow to stern on a hill west of Albuquerque. Hands Tennessee Organizer Tif Bingham said the event would be a huge success, no matter how broken the chain. After all, he pointed out, "the main purpose of Hands Across America is to raise money for the poor and hungry...
...Stern says his role in the work's genesis was minor: "The only thing I can do as a performer is to give the benefit of what I know about the violin to help him say what he wants to say. I put my hands, heart and belief at his disposal." A complex, rhapsodic study in tone color, it is particularly well suited to Stern's soulful intonation and vibrant technical flair. "You have to study the whole score and put together the sound in your head totally," explains the soloist. "Then you take the work apart measure by measure...