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...about is their staying home on Election Day. It is increasingly clear that we're going to need an energized pro-life vote in the '92 general election -- and possibly even before, if Pat Buchanan challenges the President in the primaries. This is no time to violate the old axiom. We've got to stay with the folks who brought us to the dance, and the pro-lifers are a large part of that contingent...
Mostly, however, the divergence of the books demonstrates the journalistic axiom that access is everything. Bonnie Von Stein felt abused by the police and prosecutors and didn't like the final verdict; she was convinced the wrong youth had been named as principal assailant. So McGinniss takes an artificially long 200 pages to get anyone arrested and even then keeps casting doubt on the official story, to the point of raising last-minute doubts about the complete innocence of Von Stein's daughter. Bledsoe, however, seemingly had help from the police and builds the latter half of his book around...
...Gorbachev-Yeltsin alliance has long been an axiom of reform politics in the Soviet Union. The combination may not make for the most stable relationship, but the two complement each other neatly in experience and temperament. Gorbachev is the cautious infighter who thinks out every move in advance; Yeltsin is the street brawler who goes with his heart and throws caution to the winds. Gorbachev is the sophisticated world traveler who shows presence of mind in the White House or the Vatican; Yeltsin is the blunt- spoken man of the people, comfortable mixing with workers on a shop floor...
...program that is passed either affects certain people or they have to pay for it," he explains. "To comprehend the political struggles in Washington, you have to know what's occurring in the small corners of this nation." Sidey has always been unerring in his devotion to that axiom. The politicians he covers sometimes tend to forget it, and that's how many news stories get their start...
There is a simple way. First, distinguish between environmental luxuries and environmental necessities. Luxuries are those things it would be nice to have if costless. Necessities are those things we must have regardless. Then apply a rule. Call it the fundamental axiom of sane environmentalism: Combatting ecological change that directly threatens the health and safety of people is an environmental necessity. All else is luxury...