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ROBERT BORK still has some explaining to do. Senators last week engaged Bork in an orgy of constitutional nuance that must have left most viewers dazed and confused. This was a mistake. Because his views are so clear (despite his obfuscations under oath) and so representative of the jurisprudence of...
When foreign dignitaries visit Bonn, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl usually greets them like a jolly innkeeper, slapping backs and exchanging jokes. But last week, as Erich Honecker's 18-car motorcade pulled up outside the Chancellery, Kohl could barely contain his distaste for the historic occasion, the first time...
Nowhere is the battle to uphold French more heated than in the fields of science, commerce and high technology, which are dominated the world over by English. "Our technical contribution," the newsmagazine Le Point recently lamented, "stopped with the word chauffeur." To strike back, committees have been formed by industrial...
Some press reports suggest that Soviet authorities are using the disease as a means of dissuading citizens from having contact with foreigners. If so, the strategy is probably working. On one occasion, people in the Siberian town of Bilibino objected to the use of a bathhouse by a group of...
Chronic exhaustion coupled with enormous responsibility takes a terrible toll. While working as a resident in New York City hospitals, Joseph Sachter watched his peers literally crumple to the floor. On one occasion, he reports, a resident, on duty for nearly 24 hours, had just enough stamina to oversee safely...