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...wider interest of America's position in the world was only vaguely appreciated, if at all. Always Carter's mind fixed on the small parts of the effort and not the whole. At one stage in reviewing the attack plans on the embassy compound where the hostages were held, the President asked about the Iranian guards stationed inside the embassy, near the wall that the commandos intended to scale. Were they volunteers or conscripts? he wondered. If they were radicals, Carter explained, he could go along with killing them, but if they were only peasant conscripts, he wanted them knocked...
...wider sidewalks, the tearing down and renovation of the Square's historical kiosk--a landmark for many years--and the Class of '84 will never get to see Harvard Square as it once was, or one day will...
...complicated electrical and plumbing jobs that used to be considered hands-off for amateurs. Hardware stores report a growing market for difficult-to-install bathtubs and showers. Professional tools like a ramset, a heavy-duty stud gun that uses .22-cal. cartridges to drive nails into concrete, are enjoying wider use. Energy-conserving improvements, such as the installation of wood-burning stoves and clock-activated thermostats, are among the most popular weekend projects...
...those particular instances, the dangers of loyalty were largely professional. When wider issues are at stake, however, a loyal friend may be a traitor to the rest of us. E.M. Forster, who wrote a moving, if porous, defense of personal loyalty in 1939, of all years, declared: "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." Forster then went on to concede that his viewpoint might be shocking and called upon Dante for support, arguing that Dante placed "Brutus and Cassius in the lowest circle...
...another, the first page of the new section provides a home for medium-length news features, a type of story that did not fit comfortably into the paper before. The "second front," as some Journal hands call it, has a more contemporary design than Page One, with bolder and wider headlines and more graphics-or what passes for graphics at the determinedly unvisual Journal. It introduces weekly columns on small business, regional trends, real estate, marketing and science and technology, subjects the paper tended to neglect in the past. The lower left-hand corner is reserved for short, sprightly yarns...