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...more concretely, there is this. To say that liberals should be moderate and conservatives should be moderate and all will be moderate is plausible. But it seems unlikely that very many people, enough people, will ever adopt the mindset Tsongas recommends. And if they don't, then his disciples will be overwhelmed. It's sort of like being a pacifist in the middle of a shooting war; you may have a lot to say that's worth hearing, but no one is likely to notice...
...June, Khomeini has responded with a campaign to round up and execute political enemies. The toll thus far: over 1,000 killed and 10,000 imprisoned. Observers in Tehran believe adverse reactions both within Iran and abroad to the spate of killing have driven Khomeini's forces to adopt the late Shah's clandestine methods...
...forcing the Federal Reserve to adopt a looser money policy might be an extremely shortsighted strategy. As Reagan Adviser Greenspan warns: "If the Fed eased, it would reignite inflationary expectations." Though interest rates would come down for a while with a program of easy credit, they would then probably rise quickly once again because financiers would be anticipating still higher inflation and demand still more interest. In the end, rates could well go higher than they...
...Helms had always wanted to adopt a child. In a 1962 newspaper article, Helms spotted a Greensboro orphan, age nine, who had cerebral palsy and wanted parents for Christmas. Helms succumbed. They arranged to meet at the zoo. Charles Helms, now 27, recalls: "I never will forget how tall Daddy was. I could tell right from the start that they were a unit and stuck together. I had never experienced that." Before the adoption became official, Helms gave the boy some baseball equipment. "If you won't keep me," asked Charles, "can I keep the glove and ball?" Charles, whose...
...sport or other school-related activity." Even Jepsen recognizes that his mishmash has no chance of passing Congress intact, so he proposes to put up seven sections for individual votes. One would, in effect, legalize prayer in public schools. The other six would provide tax incentives for people to adopt children and care for the handicapped and elderly dependents at home-which might indeed strengthen families but do nothing to further separation of the sexes or reinforce parental authority over children...