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Agreed Brzezinski: "The world is experiencing a global political awakening without precedent in history . . . At the same time, the world is undergoing a significant redistribution of economic and political power . . . Any attempt to create artificial obstacles to change for the sake of the status quo will merely foster U.S. isolation and irrelevance." The task, he said, "is to steer change in positive directions and to identify America with such change...
Politics is the life force at the center of Government, and the attempt to retreat from it is one of the worst mistakes of the past two years. Just about the time that Jimmy Carter seemed to be developing the necessary skills of power brokering, he picked up that sappy idea for a single six-year presidential term, which he thinks would allow a President to "ignore politics" and "stay away from any sort of campaign plans and so forth...
Canada's Dempster Highway, named after a turn-of-the-century Mountie who made a heroic attempt to rescue a stranded patrol, was begun 22 years ago by the Canadian government to spur the economic development of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The road starts at Dawson, hub of the Klondike's 1890s gold rush, laces through the deep green forested valleys of the North Klondike and climbs the rugged Ogilvie Mountains, where it peels off in to rolling alpine meadows and the tundra beyond. At the 253.7-mile mark, a simple sign announces...
...Halberstam has provided a thousand politicians and media junkies with Rolodex-files-full of inside stories and one-liners to try out on the chicken-and-green-beans circuit. The Powers That Be piles detail after detail, quickie quote on top of one-liner, superlative onto cliche, in an attempt to construct the ultimate tower of power. As in the case of an earlier group of tower builders aspiring to heaven, however, a divine curse (or was it hubris?) turned all the words into babble...
...Dayton Daily News, often favors TV personalities "who we print journalists think do a pretty lame job of news gathering." If Rosenfeld's paper headlines a local story 3 DIE IN FLAMING CRASH, the paper's spare recital of the facts is "seen as a coldhearted attempt to retail death," says Rosenfeld, while the TV viewer sees "the professionally saddened visage of the newscaster, a friendly, likable fellow, as a natural human response to tragedy...