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...Congress. Its message: "Interior Secretary James Watt must go." Last week the 240,000-member environmental organization, backed by representatives of similar "green vote" groups, brought that petition to the steps of the Capitol. There the 50 bundles, containing some 1.1 million names, were accepted by House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and California Democratic Senator Alan Cranston. As for the subject of all this wrath? Watt, 43, was out on the hustings staging his own "green" campaign-drumming up Republican funds for next year's congressional elections...
...that I don't, but just then the friend leans over. "I think that is Buddy Cianci," he says. It is obvious the guy next to me does not agree. The two begin to tussle, trading shoves. We get up to go, leaving the tip...
...devotes an entire section to Great Names in the annals of symmetry and self-reference. "MARTIN GARDNER" and "ASIMOV" both preserve their shape upside-down. Read "BORGES" a second time: It's "JORGE" written over "LUIS." And in a tip of the hat to Inversions's literary soulmate, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach, Kim has created a series of appropriate representations of those three names...
...Tip O'Neill had published a series of erudite feuilletons on such figures as Hawthorne, Henry Adams and William Randolph Hearst; or Howard Baker had come out with a sheaf of witty commentaries on the likes of Whitman, Santayana and Bernard Baruch. Michael Foot is, after all, not a professional man of letters. He is a politician, the leader of Britain's Labor Party, and, as such, his country's shadow Prime Minister...
Dayan's suggestion of concessions was a major reversal of opinion. Prior to Carter's visit, Dayan had often said that Israeli control of Sharm el-Sheik, the strategic point on the southern tip of Sinai peninsula which controls the entrance to the gulf of Arabia, was worth more than a peace treaty with Egypt...