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...dinner Reagan munches on jelly beans as he works over his papers and speeches, which he writes in a personal shorthand on 4-in. by 5-in. index cards, or watches television. Favorite programs include The Waltons and reruns of Mission: Impossible. His best-liked authors include William F. Buckley Jr. and Allen Drury...
...State Henry Kissinger said the resolution was "highly irresponsible" and had "added to the tensions, to the rifts and to the distrust" in the world. Congress was less restrained. Both houses denounced the action and promised an immediate reappraisal of U.S. involvement in the U.N. Conservative Senator James Buckley of New York charged that "the General Assembly has decided to institutionalize one of the world's most vile and ancient prejudices, anti-Semitism...
...cleavages which have poisoned Cambridge politics for over a generation. The surprising victories of Sara Mae Berman and David Clem, two liberal candidates from neighborhoods east of Harvard Square, indicate a partial success here. The overwhelming broad-based neighborhood support for Frank Duehay and the courageous candidacy of Steve Buckley, a member of a longtime name appeared on none of the "liberal" slates that year, and the clear majority of his votes originated outside the traditional liberal constituency. Rather, the CC '75 effort did succeed in preventing the deterioration in the City Council which would almost certainly have otherwise resulted...
...entire article returns again and again to the tired idea that gun control violates the Second Amendment. And yet nowhere in Sheriff Buckley's proposal is there any suggestion that we take away the guns of the "militia" mentioned in the Constitution. The raising of minutemen has been replaced in America by a standing army, and except for the use of rifles for hunting there is no condoned use of weaponry for civilians. Admittedly a gun cannot kill people unless someone fires it, but the logical solution that idea poses is the elimination of people. Elimination of the guns they...
...puzzle dictionary. It gives only the "target" words, not their pronunciations and derivations. For moments of verbal parapraxis the deipnosophist seeking just the mot juste (ulotrichous? schlep?) may wish to keep it handy. Too frequent a reliance on the book, however, may have the reader sounding like William F. Buckley...