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...resembles Clint Eastwood, skates about twelve hours at a stretch and has logged as much as 78 miles a day. Previously, he had cross-skated Canada (4,900 miles), a feat that earned him an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's longest distance roller...
...passing through the longest and bitterest political struggle that our nation has had in 100 years. Families have been split, old friendships shattered, careers ruined, public men disgraced, and great quantities of hate pumped into the American system...
...Fulbright's longest and fiercest fight was against the Viet Nam War ("an endless, futile war ... debilitating and indecent"), which he saw as an exercise in stark imperialism. He began badly, agreeing in 1964 to sponsor the Tonkin Gulf resolution at the request of Johnson, an old friend. Ostensibly designed to allow U.S. forces to hit back when attacked, the resolution was interpreted by Johnson as justifying full-scale land combat-the very last thing that Fulbright had in mind. Later he admitted: "I was derelict there...
...silver lining, in an unlikely source. In the third book of Machiavelli's Discourses, the 15th century Florentine sage declares of bodies such as republics that "those changes are beneficial that bring them back to their original principles. And those are the best-constituted bodies, and have the longest existence, which possess the intrinsic means of frequently renewing themselves." This renewal can be accomplished by a "blow from without," by which Machiavelli clearly means a foreign attack or invasion. But the same effect, he says, can be achieved by "internal occurrences" that test the national system of laws. Machiavelli...
...approached, the Israelis pleaded for more time, but the commandos refused, saying that they had no authorization to extend the limit. At 5:27, General Gur gave the order to open fire on the school. The firefight lasted only twelve minutes, but as Gur said later, "they were the longest minutes of my life." Israeli soldiers under a barrage of fire managed to reach the explosives and neutralize them. One of the three Palestinians was immediately killed by sniper fire. Another was wounded, but was still able to toss grenades and fire his automatic weapon pointblank at the screaming students...