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After years of opposition on social matters, Berliners solidly supported what proved to be the Hohenzollerns’ last military gasp — World War I. At the start of the hostilities in August 1914, people gathered in thousands to cheer the Kaiser at the royal palace.
Nor can good day care be solidly proven to give a dramatic or lasting boost to kids whose home lives are a mess.
The paper said, "Netanyahu came into office as leader of the opposition to the Oslo Accords; he is leaving having brought the Likud solidly and irreversibly into the Oslo camp.
As a result, columnists often tend to turn to filler--mock outrage over the scandal of the day; rants on solidly uncontroversial topics (the New York Post 's Maggie Gallagher, I noticed, devoted an entire column yesterday to advancing the rather daring notion that adults should not have sex with children); and, in certain cases, paeans to the comforts of their family.
A few defend Morris: His unorthodox technique captures Reagan's contradictions and makes for "a very strange, very interesting, very exasperating book, full to bursting of both lies and honesty" that calls to mind some of fiction's most masterful unreliable narrators, such as "the madness of Nabokov's Charles Kinbote" (Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker ). Christopher Lehmann-Haupt writes a solidly positive review: "I can think of few conventional political biographies that bring their subjects' pasts so richly alive" (the New York Times ). But the Times ' other reviewer voices the conventional wisdom, calling it "a bizarre, irresponsible and monstrously self-absorbed book" (Michiko Kakutani).
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