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...plans" usually conjure up images of a massive bureacracy with a mind of its own. The housing mess is a bastion of disunity. No central planner seems able to negotiate numbers between the individual houses...
Harris Wofford infuses some liberalism into this bastion of moderation. He has never held a political office before. He did, however, help President John F. Kennedy '40 start the Peace Corps and served in his administration. He marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and he was president of Bryn Mawr College. Wofford voted against Clarence Thomas' confirmation, and he campaigned on a national health care program. Wofford is the traditional liberal candidate...
College life is just a bastion of the Puritan work ethic. That's one basis of American society, but it lacks the emotion of ingenuity and surprise. So what if we can work hard, get secure jobs, set up trust funds for our children's education and save enough money to retire while we can still remember what we want to enjoy. Is this the American Dream circa 1990? Safe sex, safe drinking, safe bank accounts? We're getting so boring...
...require employers to provide insurance and let the federal government pick up everyone else. Like the old Massachusetts plan, small employers would be allowed to buy into a government-sponsored insurance plan that reduces their costs and lets them comply with the law. Even the American Medical Association, that bastion of greedhead doctors, has come out in favor of this kind of reform...
Wolf evidently decided that it was better to risk serving time in Germany than to reign as a hero in a remaining communist bastion such as China, Cuba or North Korea -- and he may be right. Whisked from the border by German Justice Ministry officials, who met him there by prearrangement with his attorney, Wolf was driven to Karlsruhe, seat of the country's high courts. There he was booked for espionage but, astonishingly, was released by a magistrate on $30,000 bail. The magistrate's reasoning: that since Wolf had turned himself in, there was little likelihood that...