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...have been using highly toxic biochemical weapons. Speaking in Berlin last week, Secretary Haig charged that "potent mycotoxins," superpoisons derived from grain molds and known to be produced by the Soviets, were found in the region. Experts at the State Department said that the toxins were isolated on a leaf from Cambodia, where the Soviet-backed government is fighting Khmer insurgents...
...less-than-rigid voting record on abortion was a "berayal " of true-blue rightism. Taking no chances that the zealots might prevail, O'Connor was probably the most thoroughly prepared nominee in history. Justice Department officials say she spent much of the summer poring over large loose-leaf notebooks containing answers to potential questions, as well as transcripts of past confirmation hearings. After two days of mock hearings with Justice lawyers in Washington, the nominee relaxed a bit by whomping up a batch of tacos for her coaches in Attorney General William French Smith's private kitchen. Escorted...
...know, all the poets and philosophers in history can't hold a candle to this one little leaf...
...Cockney, or make a very convincing climb up the slippery slopes of the English language. More important, she does not have anything like the fire, the almost feral drive of a good Eliza. Not only was Higgins a great teacher; Eliza was also a great pupil. That "squashed cabbage leaf he picked up in Covent Garden was in fact made of gold...
Streams are turned into storm sewers. An expressway is hacked through the landscape. Then a clover leaf, then a regional shopping center, then office buildings, then high-rise apartments. In this way, the bits and pieces of a city are splattered across the landscape. By this irrational process, non-communities are born, formless places without order, beauty or reason, with no visible respect for either people or the land...