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...South Africa's white minority regime has made it more than clear that it is not about to reform its apartheid policy in any meaningful way, let alone accept any move toward a black majority government in the future. Last month's wave of repression was the harshest and widest-ranging since the early '60s: the regime banned 18--or virtually all--of the country's black organizations and shut down South Africa's leading black newspapers, thus openly betraying its claim that South Africa allows the freest press is Africa...
Even Vance, who all along has been much less optimistic than his boss, seemed disappointed by the problems the U.S. faced in even getting the sides together on how to negotiate. Said he bluntly: "There are wide gaps." Among the widest...
...things considered-and nothing is unconsidered in the serious business of games played by grown men-it is the most difficult task in sport. Consider the problem: a bat 2¾ in. in diameter at its widest, hitting a ball not quite 3 in. in diameter; two objects-one cylindrical, the other a sphere-meeting headon. Consider the speed: a major league pitcher's fastball traveling well over 90 m.p.h., hissing the 60-ft. 6-in. distance from mound to plate in ⅔ of a second. Consider the odds: the game's greatest stars failing the task seven...
...whole question of public funding of abortion ought to be resolved by legislators rather than by judges. Wrote Powell: "We leave entirely free both the Federal Government and the states, through the normal process of democracy, to provide the desired funding. The issues present policy decisions of the widest concern. They should be resolved by the representatives of the people, not by this court...
...amalgam of these categories brought Turgenev his widest recognition. Enraptured by the Spanish singer, he reached back for lyric memories of his rural Russian youth. The Sportsman's Sketches provides a landscape with figures-peasants and hunters who wander in a remote and somehow doomed pastorale. The book was to become a profound influence on Hemingway, and Poet Randall Jarrell called its evocations of the countryside "the best of all possible worlds." Pritchett agrees. "There are two masters of seeing in Russian literature," he observes. "Tolstoy sees exactly as if he were an animal or a bird: and what...