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...Treasury (Hamilton). Franklin Roosevelt saved capitalism under a cover of anticapitalist rhetoric. Dwight Eisenhower, under a bland exterior, conducted what historian Fred Greenstein calls a hidden-hand presidency. Other Presidents -- from Woodrow Wilson to Jimmy Carter -- were unsuccessful because they were not politicians, were not sufficiently able to bend themselves in order to bend others...
...return will revive similar concerns about his respect for the truth. Over the years, the Texas billionaire offered different accounts of his attempt to cut short his Naval service. One of Perot's explanations -- that he wanted out because he had been told by his commanding officer to bend or break certain shipboard regulations -- has been flatly denied by the now retired officer...
...question is, Why should they bother? Already, conservatives -- in a post-Soviet context, those who resist change in the old Kremlin ways -- have been staging a kind of "creeping coup." They have been worming their way into key positions in President Boris Yeltsin's administration and are beginning to bend policy toward continued, or even increased, state control of the economy. Crows Arkady Volsky, head of the anti-Yeltsin faction: "The policies of the reformist government are on the brink of collapse...
...truth, even though they bought the system some time with blood on Tiananmen Square. The late Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, a great friend of the Great Leader, provided a corollary: the more retrograde and repressive the regime, the more violent its fall. Its strength is brittle; it will not bend, but it will break. Open the door to a country like North Korea, and the whole house will fall down. The world can hope for a North Korean soft landing -- but it should be prepared for a crash...
...best interests of baseball." Which, if you have a high opinion of the sport, the office and yourself, can mean almost any power this side of martial law. This annoyed the barons of baseball; many of them have felt like Vincent's serfs, so reluctant has he been to bend to their pleasure. "He's supposed to be a CEO," said ESPN analyst Peter Gammons. "He's not a pope...