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Henry Kissinger did not have to act unilaterally in the Middle East crisis. He could and should have arranged for the United Nations to take the lead. This would have meant the interest of all parties would have been considered. As it is, he has played all his trump cards at a cost of many billions of U.S. taxpayers' dollars in placing what I fear is a mere poultice on a cancer...
...soul is of course infinitely worse. Holding his nose against the spiritual stench, Donleavy writes maxims on social climbing, marrying for money and the fine art of suing: "If you can spot a lawyer's letter without opening it and can return it marked deceased, this is a trump card. If you cannot suppress your desire to reply, then state, 'Dear Sir, Only for the moment I am saying nothing...
...Harvard still held a trump card. Under a separate plan that the Boston Redevelopment Authority had been working on--with active Harvard encouragement--the museum portion of the library would be built in a section of the Navy Yard, as part of a comprehensive plan for the Charlestown yard. The library portion would remain in Cambridge...
...assistants to library architect I.M. Pei says that Building 36 is "an excellent site" with exciting shore-line possibilities, it is difficult to camouflage the building's and the Yard's most obvious flaws. Just the massive overhaul that is necessary to make Charlestown workable makes Harvard's trump card the lowest of its suit...
...country. But elements in this country have been working for this end. We failed. We let an ally down. But it was inevitable after Congress pulled the rug out from under the President with the War Powers Act. Hanoi was home free at that moment, for our only trump was gone. Other countries in Southeast Asia must be lonely and frightened. People who dismiss the domino theory...