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...this had been the real thing, the First Brigade would have been in the air within 18 hours of the signal to go. The 82nd, two other Army divisions and one Marine division are the ground combat element of the Rapid Deployment Force. Because paratroopers are able to land anywhere with maximum speed and surprise, the 82nd is always at the ready...
Bush stoutly denies this story. "Absolutely not," he says. And, since it makes his campaign seem thoughtfully planned rather than indecisive or excessively gentlemanly, the tale may indeed contain an element of after-the-fact rationalizing. But Bush's campaign could hardly have been better designed to make him Vice President than if that really had been its purpose from the start...
Characters are the most important element in the genre invented by Breslin, characters and setting. Hamill concentrates too much on people, not enough on place; his bars are just bars, cars only convenient devices for moving the plot around the city. But the scenery seems lush, an armchair travelogue, next to the attention given plot...
...emphasis on unity, however, some rancorous quarrels erupted during the preconvention maneuvering last week, and they could lead to trouble in the fall campaign. A certain militant element of the G.O.P. right wing still seems determined to assert its strength even if it hurts the party and the party's new leader. It was an indication that for some true believers, ideology is still more important than winning an election. Their special target was the Equal Rights Amendment. Reagan aides had already watered down the party's traditional support of ERA, which runs through most conventions back...
...some and "reverse discrimination" by others-to minorities that have suffered from past discrimination? In the celebrated Bakke decision of 1978, the court struck down a fixed racial quota on admissions to the medical school of the University of California at Davis, but said that race could be an element in the university's admissions policy. In last year's Weber de -cision, the court upheld a quota in a private company's employee training program. Left unresolved, however, was the fundamental constitutional question: Does the "equal protection of the laws" guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment flatly...