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...each other mooning over their loved one's virtues, only Ben Evett crosses the line into the merely silly. The foursome fare much better disguised as dancing Cossacks, taking their roles a little less seriously. Thomas Derrah stuffs King Ferdinand's shirt full enough to make his vow seem like an everyday stunt. Jones, as the Princess, is unable to cut as distinctive a swath, and of her attendants, only Laurie Gallucio appears as a likely candidate for love at first sight...
Still, a few Republican diehards vow to continue the fight. Georgia's Newt Gingrich declared "guerrilla warfare" on the Democrats. Other Republicans threatened to continue "stalling" the workings of the House. But there is one critical problem with this strategy: it is a Republican President whose program is now before the Congress, and any G.O.P. attempt to delay House proceedings would slow down the implementation of his agenda. That agenda will be under consideration again this week, Wright said, "when tempers have cooled and sober, second thoughts have prevailed...
...West German Chancellor Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, in an often quoted reflection on the eight summits he attended, said that "they did not bring about much, but what they avoided was of enormous importance." At every summit, for example, the seven leaders renew what amounts to a ritual vow to uphold free trade and shun any turn toward protectionism. Those vows are never perfectly kept; every country has in fact taken protectionist action. But barriers to trade would probably have been raised much higher had it not been for the leaders' repeated public commitments...
...against a Nazi takeover, but his right-wing views became identified with the movement, and when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, Schmitt opportunistically switched with the tide, becoming Prussian state councilor under Hermann Goring. He avoided prosecution as a war criminal at Nuremberg and later largely kept his vow to retreat "into the security of silence...
...inquiry was a burden as ineradicable as the number, A-7713, tattooed on his arm by a German official. "So heavy was my anguish," he remembers, "that in the spring of 1945 I made a vow: not to speak, not to touch upon the essential for at least ten years. Long enough to unite the language of humanity with the silence of the dead...