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...Hawke doubtless profited from a campaign that focused less on issues than on personalities. Sometimes brawling, sometimes brilliant, he was thoroughly in his element, always ready to win friends with a slap on the back or to convince voters with his eloquent rhetoric. Above all, he spoke to the common man. As the Melbourne Age put it, "He is the best communicator in the country, capable of reducing complex arguments to simple sentences, at times punctuated with the odd expletive." Hawke seized the momentum when the campaign began and never relinquished...
...good news last week seemed to confirm Wall Street's vote of confidence in 1982, when Chrysler stock rose by a smashing 426%, from 3% a share to 17%. The latest report, however, had little effect on the stock, doubtless because security analysts had anticipated that the year would turn out as it did. Now they are waiting to see if the new cars Chrysler will begin selling this fall will enable Chairman Iacocca to complete his half-finished U-turn...
...romantic fallacy may be hidden in such prejudices. What the music stirs in the mind need not be mere sentimentality. The evocative magic worked by songs is essentially mysterious. It doubtless has some thing to do with the organization of the brain. The musical faculty resides chiefly in the right hemisphere, along with the emotions, the nonlogical, intuitive powers of the mind. Music cohabits in the brain with myth. Says Howard Gardner, a research psychologist at Harvard: "Music mirrors the structure and the range of our emotions. It has the same kind of flow as our emotional life." What...
...November 1980, he sent Libyan troops to Chad to support former President Goukouni Oueddei in his struggle against former Defense Minister Hissène Habré. But after a 1981 withdrawal of Libyan troops, Habré, backed by Egypt, Israel, Sudan and the U.S., defeated Oueddei. Gaddafi is doubtless anxious to reinstall his ally...
...size and weight restrictions on the interstate highway system. In 1956, Congress limited combined tractor and trailer weights to 73.280 lbs, and widths to 96 inches. Given that the average interstate is designed for weights of 60,000 lbs., the limit erred on the side of generosity--generosity doubtless matching the largesse of the industry lobbyists...