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...since Inaugural Day, we have all learned that presidential will is not always enough. Perhaps we were naive to believe, for example, that the military would voluntarily abandon its bigotry simply because the Commander-in-Chief issued an executive order ending discrimination against gays and lesbians...
...unilateral use of force against the Serbs. Biden plans to tell the President that because U.N. resolutions permit "all necessary means" to deliver humanitarian aid to Bosnia, the Serbian gunners who threaten aid convoys are fair targets for American bombs. Biden will also suggest that the U.S. should abandon the arms embargo against Bosnia, thus literally giving the Serbs' victims more of a fighting chance. As one member of Biden's staff who accompanied him on his trip put it, "We couldn't find a single Bosnian who, given a choice between U.N. forces remaining and lifting the arms embargo...
Finally, a visit by the band and its followers would do immeasurable good for Harvard's atmosphere. Judging from the results of the Luntz poll, this campus is in dire need of a night of collective wild abandon--chemically, psychologically and socially. And what better catalyst than a visit by the Grateful Dead and their thousand-footed, brilliantly colored entourage...
...belief too, but America remains unpromising ground for atheism and agnosticism. One of the most intriguing discoveries in Roof's research for A Generation of Seekers (Harper San Francisco) is the growth of what he calls "believers but not belongers." Americans who leave religious institutions do not necessarily abandon religious faith. Even most dropouts say they believe in God; though one-third also believe in reincarnation, ghosts and astrology. The God of their understanding is not necessarily the personal, all-powerful and all-knowing deity of orthodoxy. Nor is the Jesus affirmed by boomers necessarily...
Clinton's policymakers fervently believe Yeltsin is the only player worth backing. They feel that there is no other figure in Moscow ready and able to carry reform forward. Democracy and free markets in Russia aside, they wonder how the West could abandon a leader who has tried to be a friend and instead embrace nationalists who have assailed Yeltsin in part because they see his foreign policy as a kind of kowtowing to Uncle Sam. For foreign admirers the choice is between Yeltsin and chaos; for Russians the outcome is all too likely to be chaos no matter...