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...necessary 34 states have done so. Never before in U.S. history has there been such a convention, and there would be no legal way to prevent it from reconsidering any part of the Constitution. Even staunch opponents of the Hatch amendment regard his proposal as by far the lesser of two evils...
...fire raging in El Salvador is primarily fueled by Soviet-sponsored subversion spread by Cuban surrogates and the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. In that extreme and simple form, their case is as yet unproved, and indeed-by the very nature of these conflicts-may never be. In a lesser form-that there is significant involvement by Cuba and Nicaragua-the case is almost self-evident...
...male stars act impeccably. Grusin's twitching, hunched, sour-eyed Zoditch recalls a Scrooge who has out-eaten his suit size and suffers itching and cramping as a result. Benedict constructs a mournful, perpetually apologetic Chulkaturin who simultaneously invites scorn and nurturing, contempt and sympathy. In a lesser part, Jeremy Geidt plays a convincingly gruff, patriarchal Ozhogin, father to the object of Chulkaturin's clumsy and unrequited youthful affections...
...consummated while Mao was still alive. As we headed for the easy chairs, he said: "I don't look bad, but God has sent me an invitation." Somehow it did not seem incongruous that the dialectician of materialism should invoke the Deity. No being of lesser rank could presume to interrupt the Chairman's labors. Even more striking was the casualness with which Mao treated the imminent end of his rule and hinted at the urgency to complete certain business...
...that sort of causal theory is whether it works at the individual level, whether harsh personal misfortune really causes epiphany or just pragmatic accommodation. The jury is still out on which one 1980's political turnabout represented, but I'll hazard a guess that it was the latter, lesser phenomenon. That verdict's not based on any sophisticated contentions that the nation's temporary economic woes did in Jimmy Carter, or that the Republican resurgence was a mere public relations coup capitalizing on the ineptitude of the incumbents--though there's much in both analyses. No--it rests...