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...Mondale also said that the "landscape of American education is not totally bleak", citing Harvard as an example. "If you are looking for an example of the finest education in the world, you will find it here," he said...
...charged than Reagan's carefully modulated address. Calling the President's policies "a formula for failure," Dodd accused him of ignoring the fundamental factors that led to instability in the region. "If Central America were not racked with poverty, there would be no revolution," Dodd argued. He painted a bleak picture of the Salvadoran government, charging that its land-reform program had long been "abandoned" and that its repressive police tactics still terrorized the populace. "I have been to that country, and I know about the morticians who travel the streets each morning to collect the bodies of those summarily...
...stint in New York, Tuchman transferred to the organization's Tokyo branch, where she helped prepare an economic handbook of the Pacific. "The Japanese militarist/fascist movement was getting very hot and IPR wanted to encourage the liberal Japanese who were still holding on," the historian recalls. The situation looked bleak, however, and in 1935. Tuchman came home--via the trans-Siberian rail-road...
Thus, no matter who took the oath of office on the Capitol steps in January 1981, the prospects were bleak for progress in either strategic or intermediate-range arms control. But Reagan had an opportunity to turn the situation around. Americans, allies and Soviet leaders alike were fed up with the dithering of Carter and were ready for some old-fashioned conservatism, tempered by common sense and self-confidence. Instead, Reagan made a bad situation worse with his rhetoric suggesting implacable hostility to the Soviet Union and his deep mistrust of the very idea of arms control...
...such incident sends two greasers, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and Johnny (Ralph Macchio), on a trek away from Tulsa to live on the lam and find new ways of being brave and getting hurt. Another greaser, Dallas (Matt Dillon), provides a role model for sexy self-destruction. The bleak moral of Francis Coppola's movie, based on an S.E. Hinton novel that has sold 4 million copies in the U.S., is that you can do good or do bad-but everybody dies...