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Single malts are the original Scotch whiskies. They are made from malted barley in copper-domed pot stills at 101 distilleries scattered throughout Scotland and are aged for at least four years in used sherry or bourbon casks. When combined with cheaper, less flavorsome grain whiskies, they become the blends that most consumers think of as Scotch. A quality brand, like Chivas Regal, may be 65% malt, with whiskies chosen from 40 different distilleries...
...graying Carmichael smiling as he recalls a phone conversation with King just before King came out publicly against the Viet Nam War. Or Ron Scott, whose apartment was raided by National Guardsmen during the Detroit riots, explaining, "Inside of most black people there was a time bomb . . . a pot that was about to overflow." If the historian's job is to bring some sort of order and sense to events that once seemed chaotic and frightening, then Eyes II deserves top prize...
...emcees appear ostensibly to introduce the scenes. But most of their jokes are at the expense of the show's weaknesses, often taking pot shots at corny tap dance scenes and cliched characters. And the emcee's performances are invariably much funnier than anything else in the show...
...tyrants go, Ceausescu was surely crueler, more methodical and more blood-soaked than Noriega, who often came off as a tin-pot dictator. Yet the similarities were striking. Like many of their kind, both described themselves as reformers, Ceausescu as a leader independent of Moscow, Noriega as a Panamanian nationalist. The U.S. was not above using both when they served its special purposes. Richard Nixon welcomed Ceausescu's help in negotiating the first opening to China; under Ronald Reagan, the CIA sought Noriega's assistance in aiding Nicaragua's contras. But in Ceausescu's 24 years of iron rule...
...there were a handful, really a small number, of people in this entire building ((the Pentagon)) who knew this operation was going to happen." In retrospect, though, the invasion looks inevitable. The U.S. through two Administrations built Noriega into a menacing monster -- instead of what he was, the tin-pot dictator of a not very important country -- and put its credibility on the line in declaring that he had to go. But everything Washington tried -- propaganda, economic sanctions, attempts to foment a coup -- failed. The Pentagon prepared fresh contingency plans for an invasion at least as early as last spring...