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First, the professors needed to be reminded that they were on the CRR. Then they had to meet each other. Then, as a group of scholars, they had to tackle the responsibility of reconstituting the body, deciding its procedures, scheduling hearings for the protesters and proceeding as a collective inquisitor, judge and jury...
...questions about his policies around the world. Indeed, the various, precarious strands of foreign policy dominated Washington's agenda all week. Pugnacity from Moscow and aerial assaults by Iran and Iraq on shipping in the Persian Gulf naturally prompted concern, even skittishness. "Mr. President," his final press conference inquisitor asked, "how do you account for the fact that so many people . . . think that during the last 3½ years the world has moved closer to war?" Reagan had been prepped by two mock press conferences with his staff. "That is because that's all most of the people...
...Inquisitor Koppel...
...hell to pay. The author, a resident staffer at The New Yorker, was raised a Dutch Calvinist, and he is a past master at striking antithetical poses. He is at once the liberal humanist, tolerantly condoning free expression and yearnings of the flesh; he is also the hooded inquisitor, meting out appropriate punishment whenever anyone tries to have a little...
...FIRING SQUAD cocked their triggers. The Executioner never even got up to the thirties; I can't say she did this on purpose and it doesn't really matter since I would have gaffed just as badly. To the Inquisitor's credit, he helped me all the way through his queries with obvious hints, but by then I was reeling, feeling they had tied the blindfold and then asked me what color clothes they were wearing...