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ROCK. The Clash: London Calling (Epic, 2 LPs). Knockdown street anthems by the toughest band around...
...Knockdown, drag-out affairs in Madison Square Garden are nothing new to one Carter supporter and unofficial Kentucky delegate. So while the convention droned on, former Heavyweight Champion Muhammad All was working the floor-signing autographs and pressing flesh. "I don't know nothing about politics," said the Greatest, with uncharacteristic modesty. He did, however, sport an ERA YES button, as well as a natty new mustache. Asked if he were sparring for a career in office, Ali replied: "The only thing I'd ever run for is President...
...Panama Canal treaties. The Administration's knockdown, drag-out, barely successful battle for Senate ratification left political scars that have still not healed...
...procedure is double-edged. Oxford's J.L. Mackie, perhaps the ablest of today's atheistic philosophers, offers nonsupernatural explanations for such evidence, and raises the problem, as old as the Book of Job, of evil. The existence of evil is no "knockdown disproof of an omnipotent and wholly good God," he says, but it does make God , improbable. Plantinga renovates the theist's classic reply to this: the free will argument. Examining whether a semifictional, corrupt Boston mayor would have taken smaller bribes in other "possible worlds," he argues that even an all-powerful God cannot create...
...avoid entangling the stimulative tax cuts in a knockdown congressional fight, Carter offered a list of reforms much shorter than the one he was contemplating last fall. Among the reform measures retained in the package are the elimination of individual itemized deductions for sales and gasoline taxes; personal property levies on cars, furniture, etc., which only a few states impose, would also be made nondeductible. Other proposals call for tightening up on medical expense deductions and imposing taxes on unemployment insurance payments, now exempt, collected by individuals making $20,000 or more a year...