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Just in case the Harvard Law grad does decide to toss his hat into the ring, here are a few Duke facts you can impress your friends with at cocktail parties...
Both are true. On the surface, the rich and near rich have more money to toss around, so the values of the age appear callously self-directed. Yet the plight of the poor is a constant subject of concern and speculation, arising regularly in the platforms of both political parties and in public debate. Below the glacial surface of inactivity, real hearts stir on this issue, but they move nothing. This secret of the age has a secret of its own: we embrace all groups but the poor...
...Israeli transfers of arms to Iran in 1985, but contended he was told little or nothing of the direct U.S. sales this year. Though the President signed an intelligence "finding" authorizing them on Jan. 17, Shultz did not hear about it until November. Shultz did have one bombshell to toss. After the scandal became public, he asked all State Department diplomats throughout the world to report to him what they knew. He read to the committee a cable he received in response from Ambassador Kelly in Beirut. Excerpts: "I met in Washington, in July or August 1986, with Robert McFarlane...
Although the Ivy race is a toss-up this early in the year, the Crimson is definitely among the league favorites. Defending champ Brown will be the team to beat, with Princeton, Dartmouth and Yale will also providing stiff competition. "No one team can rule the Ivies," Crimson assistant Coach Bill MacDonald said...
...surface of the neutron star -- at a rate of a trillion tons a second -- striking so violently that it literally explodes. Says Co-Discoverer William Priedhorsky of Los Alamos National Laboratory: "A neutron star can convert about 10% of the mass that falls on it into radiation. If you toss on a marshmallow, you get out the energy of a Hiroshima bomb." A trillion-ton marshmallow every second makes an even bigger splash; the stupendous energy from this perpetual explosion radiates outward | as a steady torrent of X rays...