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...Allen is not laying before Reagan the detailed analyses of foreign policy problems and options that previous Presidents got from stronger aides. A third difficulty is that Secretary of State Haig is more of a tactician than a strategist, and has surrounded himself with aides of like mind; they tend almost reflexively to muscular, ad hoc responses toward particular problems, frequently focusing on the shipment of arms abroad as a prime method of diplomacy. Finally, Reagan himself, lacking experience in foreign affairs and concentrating mostly on domestic problems, has failed to appreciate his aides' shortcomings...
...close bonds between the two groups and the Poles' strong feeling of national unity. The army's 210,000 members are drawn largely from the same worker and peasant ranks as members of Solidarity and its rural counterpart; so are 86% of the Polish officer corps. Conscripts tend to serve in the regions where they are drafted, adding further to their identification with local people. Says one Western diplomat in Warsaw: "An army like that is designed to defend the country and not to put down revolts. A third of the army has been drafted since August...
Paleontologists, of course, tend to relish arguing about bones as much as digging them up. But after much debate, most now agree that a Brontosaurus head should not be the familiar, friendly snub-nosed skull of children's books and TV's Flintstones, but rather a much more elongated, toothy and reptilian-looking skull. Yale's correction, to be sure, is a little tardy. Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum and the Field Museum in Chicago have already changed their Brontosaurus heads. What makes the Peabody's fossil surgery so interesting is that the original foul...
Though some Follow Through models combine teaching elements from both methods, many classrooms tend to be readily identifiable as either prickly or gooey. Follow Through classes at the Weeksville School, P.S. 243 in Brooklyn, for instance, are colorful, but seem a bit chaotic. In Teresa Van Exel's second-grade class, various groups do different things at the same time. The second grade has chosen the apple as this year's theme, and in one corner, Van Exel conducts a science class for eight children on how apples were stored for winter during the 1800s. Meanwhile...
...deduction. Like most literary fools since Don Quixote saddled up Rosinante, Lundgren is redeemed by his own goodness. Harrison's taste for the bat ty sometimes cloys: "He really wasn't so much a fool as he was giddy about still being alive." Lengthy erotic descriptions tend to become postcoital arias. But Har rison scores well on the firing range: his humor usually strikes in the killing zone. Dashiell Hammett's low-rent realism made the mystery novel fun to read. War lock demonstrates that it is equally enjoy able to spoof...