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...government wants reform at all. As Huntington says, quite accurately, since April 1986 "the government has given top priority to re-establishing its control, to eliminating violence, and to suppressing what it views as challenges to its authority." (p. 20-21) The danger, he says, is that it will abandon interest in reform--evidently placing South Africa back under threat of a revolutionary overthrow, which was what originally aroused Huntington's concern...
...himself trapped by his official role. Denied permission to say anything that would preview the President's press conference, Bush was reduced to banalities. "I still believe the solution is not to go rushing out to raise taxes," he declared, staking out a position that Reagan seemed about to abandon. The next day in Iowa, the Vice President reaped further confusion by reframing his position on taxes. "I'll support the Administration, and I won't change," Bush promised. "But now I'm a candidate, and when I become President, there won't be any tax increases...
Chappaz and his French colleagues feel the same way. "These objects would eventually have been destroyed by the sea," he says. "Why should we simply abandon them?" He adds, "I won't get rich from the Titanic." Indeed, the objects are scheduled to go on a world-wide tour next summer and eventually be lent to various museums for public display...
...what to do? It would be unthinkable to abandon October's greatest source of pleasure (I rank leaves and Halloween as close seconds and thirds), but equally impossible to enjoy without rooting. Well, don't rush me; Kirby Puckett proves that a man can have an ordinary looking physique, much like mine, and still play ball with the best--a fine antidote to the hypertrophy required for basketball or football (not to mention sumo wrestling...
...extremely emotional. People are dumping stocks with reckless abandon. As trite as it may sound, the market is going down because it's going down...