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...Reagan Administration, the crisis over Flight 007 was an especially complex and complicated matter. Despite the many unanswered questions that continued to surround the incident, it was clear that the Soviets had committed a brutally provocative act, one that demanded an unambiguous U.S. response. The President rarely has much trouble expressing such sentiments on a visceral level, as a senior White House aide pointed out shortly after the attack. "It is further evidence that the President was right," reminded the aide, "when he said the Soviet Union is a country that is essentially evil...
...born in 1900 and was a ripe 20 before American women even acquired the vote, made him a somewhat progressive member of the pre-Virginia Slims generation. But, like the Three Blind Mice, close-minded and superficial feminists neither see nor understand the real human beings who surround them daily...
...with all great rivalries, more legends surround The Game than Evelyn Wood could read in a lifetime. Last year's contest will enter the history book for two reasons. Harvard's 45-7 romp set a school record for points scored against Yale. And a Massachusetts Institute of Technology fraternity prank--in which a hydraulically-powered-balloon bearing the Tech's initials popped out of turf in the middle of the game--set an MIT record for most points scored against Harvard. This year's classic will be special as the 100th playing of The Game...
...above-ground enterprises. It is an illegal but organized system." Far more so than in New York City, says Zagorin, noting that it is teeming with underground operators: "Many of them, one must assume, are not reporting their income. Oddly enough, in Manhattan, the street vendors now even surround IRS headquarters...
...keep Burford. One top White House aide offered a sarcastic assessment: "We have nothing against her except that she might not have managed the agency properly." Officials described the new talent at EPA as calculated to strengthen top management, particularly in the Superfund program. "We're going to surround her," said a Reagan adviser...