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...bill to be submitted to Parliament next year. But the first step was impressive enough. Said the liberal newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris: "We went to sleep in July in a Jacobin state more in the tradition of the monarchy than of the French Revolution. And voilà, we woke up in August in a decentralized country. What an adventure...
...part of the defense budget "should be allocated to building tables around which we can talk reasonably with the Russians") or general outlook ("I'm very Machiavellian and ruthless, and I can be ugly--but I don't want to hurt anybody"). Hamlin is the quintessential American dreamer who woke up in the middle of the night to find himself realizing his fantasy. And the challenges of Harvard are a far cry from the trials of boot camp...
Then Heather woke up, angry with herself for having such a trite dream. She knew what it meant thought and why it bothered her. Steve, Angela, Frank Elaine and she were all writing theses...
Although many anxious freshmen woke up in time to meet the 8 a.m. messenger, some decided their sleep was more important. But whenever they got the news, most freshmen seemed satisfied with their new addresses...
Ronald Reagan normally sleeps soundly, but he woke up worried at 4 a.m. last Wednesday. Neither of the two drafts that aides had prepared for the TV speech he was to deliver 41 hours later-his first from the White House-sounded quite right to him. So the President got up in the predawn darkness to scribble on a yellow legal pad, beginning a painstaking rewrite that continued later with the help of speechwriters and ended only five hours before he went on-camera in the Oval Office. Though Reagan rarely carries cash, he made a point of bringing...