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President Reagan's early failure to prevent the invasion left White House aides reluctant to have further direct presidential involvement in the crisis. There was considerable concern that Reagan's image had been damaged when word was released that he had talked for as long as 50 minutes with Galtieri without having any effect...
...Kiefer Sutherland: Give up the booze—word is you’ve already been sober for 24 hours post slammer...nice...
...shadow it casts in the world.Even at the time of its creation, the lexicology of “Homeland Security” drew fire. In 2002 conservative columnist Peggy Noonan suggested that George W. Bush reconsider the name. “Homeland isn’t really an American word,” the former Reagan advisor opined in The Wall Street Journal, “It has a vaguely Teutonic ring--Ve must help ze Fuehrer protect ze Homeland!” Noonan seems to have struck the source of the visceral unease that the term provokes...
...they are now - they look for a credible candidate who's as different as possible from the incumbent who made the existing mess. When they're happy - as they were, for example, in 1988 - they look for someone as similar as possible. The precise placement of the incantatory word "change" on a campaign poster is too nuanced even to be noticed, let alone to sway a vote...
...Shinn planning his escape? "I'm already hearing that," he says. "My goal is to make this thing work. I can't work any miracles, I just can't do that. People just have to take my word for it." The Hornets have moved four times in the last six years; Shinn insists he wouldn't relish more U-Hauls. "I'm 66, I'm tired of moving." But if more residents of the Big Easy don't start making the move to see the Hornets, he may have to start packing again...