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...part of the cultural pattern (as if Africa, India, Asia, and Latin America) no authority has been able to suppress it for long." Solomon believes the issues raised by the existence of psychoactive substances transcend the risks and benefits of any particular drug: "No social authority can successfully arrogate unto itself the right to dictate or fix the levels of consciousness to which man may aspire, whether these states are reached pharmacologically or otherwise...
...persistence one needs to gather information on a royal family preserving the aura of the kings and queens of old." For this week's cover, Cronin learned even more about perseverance by watching the watchers of the royals. "The Fleet Street reporters and photographers are a breed unto themselves," she reports, "devilishly competitive, clever and professional. The chase and the 'hit' [scoop] get their blood up." Cronin, who journeyed from Buckingham Palace to Acapulco last week in pursuit of the royal family, finds her fellow reporters' zeal, if not their perfervid imaginations, infectious. Says...
...saint, a competent soldier but not great, thoughtful but not brilliant like Alexander Hamilton. He was a respectable administrator but certainly not a genius. All this and more his biographers have put down. Washington was a prudent conserver but not a brilliant reformer. He was sober unto dullness. He lacked the common touch so much that not even his British enemies had a derogatory nickname for him during the war. He could strip off his coat and help the field hands, but he had no very close friends. The Marquis de Lafayette, his French ally, was as close as anyone...
...uncertain what Gemayel will do with the report once Germanos delivers it to him. The Phalangist militia men still make up the most powerful Lebanese military force, and they operate as a law unto themselves. Gemayel's relationship with them is strained, and they have the power to disrupt his government...
...time, and put razor blades in the sneakers of Pierce, the first Black cadet in the Institute's history. Will, the hero, talks a lot about saving the Black cadet from his tormentors because it's the "right" thing to do, turning the other cheek, and doing unto others in the classical Christian manner...