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Since the Secret Service driver was unfamiliar with the grounds, we decided he was lost. Retracing our path, we found the ambulance still at the front of the hospital amid many onlookers. In our haste we had left without confirming that the ambulance was behind us. On the second try we did it right...
Some students complained that they remain unfamiliar with Vorenberg's views because the selection process is shrowded in secrecy. Vorenberg explained why he refrained from discussing his views publicly during the search, saying any comment on the prospect of his selection would have made it appear that he was running on a platform for the position...
...vestibule of the Oval Office. "We're on any minute now," is the latest word. And indeed, Allen soon makes his joking exit, the large door is reopened, and the tall, dark-haired man can be seen standing next to his desk. He buttons his jacket as the unfamiliar visitor makes his entrance...
...their heads. That creates another source of hostility to gays: ignorance. Shutting homosexuality out of our world fosters the same fear and mistrust of the alien that has always led people to hate each other. Our prejudice against gay people will linger as long as they are unfamiliar. Only free interaction with them will show us that they are people just like ourselves...
With the change of Administrations, some attackers in the press are now practicing the unfamiliar arts of defense. It's not easy for someone like Conservative George F. Will, the most literate of Washington columnists. Thoughtful, astringently witty and rather young for a seasoned oracle (39), Will once called Carter perhaps the most dangerous President since James Buchanan. On their first postvictory visit to Washington, the Reagans went to dinner at the Wills' in Chevy Chase. This inspired Garry Trudeau to a cutting Doonesbury cartoon. In a column last week Will good-humoredly noted: "Fearful rumors are afoot...