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...dream is a reality now--albeit a flawed, disappointing reality. Perhaps it is in the nature of dreams and visions to remain magnificently flawless only for as long as they are unfulfilled. Ben-Gurion always wanted Israel to become a "Light unto the Nations," an exemplary polity abiding by the highest moral standards. He himself, and his Israel, could hardly live up to such expectations. But he was, to borrow a literary term, a fantastic realist who gave his people an elemental, Old Testament leadership during the most fateful half-century in their history...
...Republican Calvin Coolidge in 1924. Five decades later, he ran for President himself. But it is what he accomplished in between that made Dr. Benjamin Spock one of the most famous and controversial figures of his century. He single-handedly changed the way parents raise their children. He preached, albeit gently, that what infants need most from their mothers and fathers is love. Babies are not, he argued (against the prevailing wisdom of the times), little savages who must be broken to adult schedules as quickly as possible. Don't rush them, he urged; cherish them. Small wonder, then, that...
...that the economy will grow steadily, continually pushing up tax revenues. Should there be one or more recessions instead, Reischauer thinks, the budget over the next 10 years or so would swing back and forth between "little surpluses" and offsetting "little deficits." Even that would mark the achievement, albeit more than 35 years late, of a goal once proclaimed by John F. Kennedy: a balanced budget over the business cycle...
This past week's Democracy Teach-In, a week-long series of activism-based events and speeches that occurred simultaneously at more than 110 colleges, reflects an attempt to reinvigorate campus activism, albeit not the "in-your-face" activism characteristic of the '60 s, or even the randomization or ethnic studies protests of several years...
...American Century draws to an end, these values are now ascendant. The main, albeit unfinished, story line of the century is the triumph of freedom (and its corollaries: democracy, individual liberty and free markets) over totalitarianism and communism. When America has been willing to stand firm for its values, that willingness has proved to be, even more than its military might, the true source of its power in the world. TIME thus remains rather prejudiced toward the values of free minds, free markets, free speech and free choice. This reflects our faith that people are generally smart and sensible...