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What next? In light of Reagan's bafflement about the existence of a national problem he has done so much to exacerbate, it seems likely that he will accept the fabrications of unreconstructed racists like George Graham. Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, says the Hunger Task Force is about to propose as much as $1 billion in cuts in food assistance over the next few years...
...thought. Never had I heard such tripe." Fortunately, Weiner is not nearly as wicked or unprincipled as he pretends. "There was nothing I wouldn't stoop to," he says, but the claim is transparently false. His ineptitude as a villain is exceeded only by his bafflement at the world around...
Writers who journey through the accounts of his life almost always confess some bafflement about why he was such a great figure in his time and remains so in ours. British Historian Marcus Cunliffe points out that Washington was a good man but not a saint, a competent soldier but not great, thoughtful but not brilliant like Alexander Hamilton. He was a respectable administrator but certainly not a genius. All this and more his biographers have put down. Washington was a prudent conserver but not a brilliant reformer. He was sober unto dullness. He lacked the common touch so much...
...corruption spread. Even Harding began to notice the borborygmic rumbles coming from his overstuffed subordinates. By then it was too late to avert scandals, although Harding did not live to suffer them. He died, apparently of a heart at tack, perhaps complicated by simple bafflement. Today, in a more cynical age, it is hard to believe that so many officials could plunder so brazenly. Mee's version of this gaudy time is light and entertaining. It may also, if the reader wishes, be taken as cautionary...
...Meese's darkened office over the weekend, its cargo bay inexplicably swung open. Small metal pieces fell out. So sensitive is the White House alarm system these days that a flock of "white mice"-the nickname for agents responsible for office security-came scurrying. To their bafflement, they found the room locked, unoccupied and undisturbed. As with the real shuttle, it took quite a bit of figuring to tell what had gone wrong...