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...SHARPEST KNIFE The one belonging to Kitty Kelley, whose biography, His Way, punctured the image, and perhaps the ego, of Frank Sinatra...
Casey confused? His manner may be bumbling and his mumble legendary, but associates contend that Casey, a speed-reader with an ability to assimilate complex information quickly, has one of the sharpest minds in the Government. "Bill Casey's the brightest guy I've met in my life," declares Stanley Sporkin, a former CIA counsel and now a federal judge. Casey's speech grows softer and less articulate, intimates say, when he does not like the questions being put to him. "His mumble becomes decidedly worse when he has to talk to Congress," notes one old friend. Anne Armstrong, chairman...
Bennett reserves some of his sharpest criticismfor the Core Curriculum, which he said has failedto provide any real educational foundation...
...sharpest exchanges came during debate on a proposal by Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts to prohibit use of U.S. troops in Nicaragua except in cases of declared war or prior congressional approval. Kennedy demanded to know whether Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, who opposed the amendment, could personally guarantee that troops would not be sent. Lugar stated his personal opposition to deploying U.S. troops but declined to make any pledge. Asserted Lugar: "The thrust of our foreign policy is not to go to war. It is to try to bring about democracy." As the outgunned and outnumbered contras acknowledge, that...
...seems the sharpest of paradoxes: an independent judiciary housed within an authoritarian state. Yet at various times over the past four decades, South Africa's courts have challenged the government in an effort to protect the civil liberties of the country's black majority. Last week, as a three-judge panel of the Natal Supreme Court struck down key provisions of the state of emergency, the world saw a bold example of a maverick judicial system in action...