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...deformed inmate who could not close his mouth. But as Bear and Joy told a conference of their colleagues in San Francisco, these operations often pay dividends for society. Joy points with pride to a once unpopular prisoner at Virginia State Penitentiary, an antisocial murderer who, after surgery to correct a grossly protruding jaw, finally won the friendship of fellow inmates...
President Carter visited Iran once during Sullivan's tenure there, and on New Year's Day 1978 toasted the shah with remarks that Sullivan said were added to prepared "cool but correct remarks." In his toast, Carter called Iran "an island of stability in one of the most troubled areas of the world. This is a great tribute to you, your majesty, and to your leadership and to the respect, admiration and love which your people give...
...ongoing debate between evolutionists and creationists, I don't see one side correct and the other wrong. As a scientist, I cannot deny the convincing evidence that life evolved on this planet from the simple to the complex. As a philosopher, I cannot imagine that all this took place without some divine cause...
...Right has long regarded busing as a "moral issue," and in a sense that is correct. When busing began in Boston five years ago, groups of white parents and students stood near South Boston High to shower rocks and bottles on busloads of Black students arriving from Roxbury. With the official encouragement of dozens of politicians, groups like ROAR (Restore Our Alienated Rights) and the South Boston Marshals did their best to disrupt the city with their rhetoric of race-hatred and neighborhood-pride...
True, Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, makes a convincing villain: she all but destroyed the Peking Opera and the theater by permitting only dull, politically correct works. (Nowadays at theatrical performances, foreigners sometimes find themselves clapping more than the Chinese present; the guide explains that during the Cultural Revolution, when attendance was compulsory but the programs awful, the Chinese withheld applause as a form of retaliation, and are only now beginning to clap again.) Everybody knows that many of the bureaucrats who waged the Cultural Revolution still occupy high places. But the government's propaganda campaign lets writers...