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...with helping to frustrate Trotsky's ambitions. Yet Gorbachev felt compelled to cite Lenin's reservations about Bukharin's ideological purity. On that point, as in his unabashed defense of the Kremlin's infamous 1939 pact with Hitler, Gorbachev showed there are limits on how far even he would stray from official versions of Soviet history...
...been and where I would be so that she could see them from California. I showed her Au Bon Pain, recognizing the red sign, and then we tried to find my dorm room. She didn't know what she had expected, but it wasn't the bicycle, stray newspapers, and beer bottles on the floor. After that, I didn't know which school buildings we should see. I didn't know which would be important...
...getting through to one another, that most men are treacherous troglodytes and women are socially conditioned to serve them. "According to the 'male' ideology," she asserts, "there can be no such thing as equality -- 'someone has to be on top.' " In addition, much of her analysis seems to stray from the questionnaire upon which the book is based. Indeed, as with Hite Reports I and II, the survey often seems merely to provide an occasion for the author's own male-bashing diatribes...
...That's just not fair," she protests after calmly reciting a list of recent measures. Always poised, she is at her most confident defending her department's record. The Harvard-trained lawyer methodically prepares her material and is deft at marshaling facts. But she can be wounded by a stray remark. When told that a Democratic political consultant had joked, "At least no one can say she quit while she was ahead," Dole grew silent, wide-eyed and quietly hurt. "She takes her job very seriously," notes Robert Ellsworth, a longtime friend and her husband's campaign chairman...
...least five of six recommended techniques for verifying their location, including use of the charts. The Delta crew, the investigators found, had followed only one of the six procedures. The Canadian board issued a similar plea and reported that five times a month aircraft crossing the North Atlantic stray off course by 25 miles or more. These "gross deviations," the Canadian board said, are occurring "with sufficient frequency for concern." The American board faulted both crews for failing to report the incident promptly, which left air controllers unaware that the Delta plane was off course. Delta suspended the pilot...