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...parties themselves have to want peace if anything is to change. A flawed compromise (which in the current context means a solution that results from superpower arm-twisting), Baker wrote in his senior paper, "would alienate both parties and would, in the long run, be worse than adopting either's . . . all-out solutions." So while the Administration considered telling the Israelis that aid would be frozen unless they stopped building settlements on the occupied West Bank, few top officials advocate such a hardball move anymore. "Even if we tried that," says a Bush adviser, "Congress would kill us. They...
...news: "While we'd like to believe economic recovery is just around the corner, we have seen no evidence yet to indicate any improvement, and consequently the year remains uncertain." The IBM empire is striking back. In a marketing effort unparalleled in its 80-year history, the company launched an all-out offensive to retain current markets and recapture lost turf. The past 11 months have brought virtually nonstop announcements of new products, including a laptop computer, a home computer and a line of midrange computers costing an average...
...where it will train educators to teach various Hubbard methods. The disingenuously named Citizens Commission on Human Rights is a Scientology group at war with psychiatry, its primary competitor. The commission typically issues reports aimed at discrediting particular psychiatrists and the field in general. The CCHR is also behind an all-out war against Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac, the nation's top-selling antidepression drug. Despite scant evidence, the group's members - who call themselves "psychbusters" - claim that Prozac drives people to murder or suicide. Through mass mailings, appearances on talk shows and heavy lobbying, CCHR has hurt...
What surprised critics and readers, and possibly even Kelley herself, was the thoroughness of her next effort, His Way, a devastating biography of Frank Sinatra. Even before the manuscript was completed, the singer had mounted an all-out campaign to dry up Kelley's sources. When that did not prove sufficient, he filed suit claiming that Kitty was misrepresenting herself to sources and failing to disclose her reasons for writing the book. But Sinatra had never had to deal with so determined an opponent. Kelley argued that Sinatra was trying to prevent her from publishing freely; Sinatra's lawyers finally...
George Kelling, a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University, suggests that the terms "war on crime" and "war on drugs" encourage and even demand an all-out attack by police upon criminals -- no holding back, no quarter given. But like American soldiers in Vietnam, the police are fighting an unwinnable war, assuming large social responsibilities that belong more to politicians than to policemen; and as in Vietnam, atrocities are being committed, on both sides...