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...ever be without enemies. Over the centuries, Jesuits have been accused not only of seeking to undermine various rulers (including a number of Popes) but of plotting to assassinate no fewer than four European monarchs. By the 18th century they had become so powerful that enemies referred to the superior general of the black-clad order as the "Black Pope." The word Jesuit eventually became synonymous in the popular-though mainly Protestant-imagination with duplicity, equivocation and intrigue. Yet the society's demanding training, rigorous discipline and pioneering work in education also earned its members a reputation...
...Libyan pilot did attack last week remained a matter of conjecture. After all, two score Libyan planes had entered the area and left peacefully before the clash, and at least eight more appeared later. The pilot who fired the Atoll missile must surely have known that he was facing superior American aircraft; in any case, at least two Libyan MiG-23s, much more advanced aircraft than the Su-22s, were in the area of the dogfight and did not intervene. Did Tripoli order the attack or did the pilot panic? Did he make a mistake of bravado or simply trigger...
...while a Byzantine logothete is not the worst thing you can say about someone-it means a glorified accountant-it does suggest a certain largesse of contempt that is missing from modern life. A government official is fired from a high post and he cites "personal differences" with his superior. An actress is savaged in a gossip column, and she "resents" it. Mighty civilized behavior. To be sure, these people do not mean a tepid word they say. Deep in their smoking hearts what they yearn to shout is that the former boss and the gossip columnist are the putrescence...
...mind, this is a pragmatic judgment, not a moral one. Says he: "Cultures are not 'superior' or 'inferior." They are better or worse adapted to a particular set of circumstances." Because slavery so distorted the black experience in the U.S., Sowell suggests blacks could measure their progress as though they were recently arrived immigrants. Even so, he is contemptuous of blacks who feel they should be given special treatment because of the lingering effects of slavery; when one compares "the average standard of living in Africa to the average standard of living of black Americans, the grotesque...
...Michelle Triola Marvin, 46. In July, the former live-in mate of Actor Lee Marvin, 57, was fined and placed on probation for shoplifting some bras and a sweater from a Beverly Hills store. Then last week the California Court of Appeal reversed the landmark 1979 Los Angeles Superior Court decision that ordered Marvin to ante up $104,000 in palimony-equivalent to $1,000 a week for two years, the most that Triola, who now describes herself as a public relations agent, had made in her career as a lounge singer. The appeals court upheld the concept of palimony...