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...world the sweeping changes Deng is pushing through in China. But for all the panache he displayed on taking power and all the headlines and television time he and Reagan commanded at the summit, Gorbachev's impact on history by year's end was still far more potential than actual. The freshness and vigor of his personal style far outweighed the importance of any changes he had made in Soviet foreign or domestic policy. Indeed, though Gorbachev, like Deng, has made pepping up his country's economy and improving the material lives of its citizens his top priority, the caution...
...moral equivalent, or the immoral equivalent, of a passionate night in bed. Perhaps in screenplays of the future, kisses will be blown on the wind like pheromones. The signals of passion might be changed: an ear might be nibbled, for example, or the nape of a neck nuzzled. Actual kissing may have to be handled by the special-effects department: an artful illusion. Producers may lie around the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel, smoking cigars, reading Jane Austen and Henry James, looking for a hot love scene. --By Lance Morrow
...staff, and I have issues in my faculty." It might take six years, he said, to change the culture. Yet other allegations are contested, and a congressional fracas over the issue suggests the nation's faith-tinted "culture wars," which have until now spared the armed services, may impact actual warriors...
...Gods of Wisdom are bored. They are suffering fight-deprivation syndrome. The big spring battle in the Senate over filibuster rules and judicial appointments was resolved through compromise; Social Security has been talked to death; and the insipid Democrats have refused to confront the President on issues that actually matter, like the need for a comprehensive health-insurance overhaul or the absence of a coherent strategy in Iraq. The titillation of the trivial-the tendency to rate the presidency solely on the polling and politics of the moment-means that Bush has largely escaped judgment on the actual work...
Innate differences. Though never actually uttered by University President Lawrence H. Summers in his remarks on Jan. 14 at a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference, a newspaper could not be opened or a television channel changed without confronting these two words in the early part of the year. Indeed, Summers’ actual comments soon swirled from a media storm to a full-on faculty hurricane. As public scrutiny of Summers—and Harvard—has finally started to die down, we hope that the University can return to truly important concerns like the number...