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...ideals and compassion and conviction to change the world that marked our youth is now nothing but a long-faded wisp of adolescence . . . But they have misjudged us." By no coincidence, the group that he implores "to put our own stamp on the face and character of America, to bend history just a bit" makes up an estimated 58% of next year's eligible voters...
Some of these people would have fallen for a shaman, any fool who claimed, say, he could bend spoons with his mind. But Rinpoche was not a charlatan. By all accounts, he was brilliant, he was the real thing. The easiest conclusion to draw, looking from the outside in, is that he was an astute businessman. His devotees ran to the upper middle class, white, with impressive academic credentials. They dressed like Dharma bums in the beginning, but soon the teacher had them shaved, suited and cravated. If they did not exactly turn their pockets inside out for their teacher...
...widespread respect in international economic circles, though he has no central bank experience. Moreover, his economic views are cut from essentially the same conservative, anti-inflationary fabric as Volcker's. As a Republican who has already served one Republican President, however, Greenspan is bound to face increasing pressure to bend his actions to political ends as the 1988 presidential election draws nearer. Indeed, some Administration critics argued last week that Greenspan's surprise appointment already amounted to just such political meddling. Said Pierre Rinfret, a former Nixon Administration economic adviser and now a Wall Street consultant: "It's a real...
When the freshmen, led by stroke Duncan Wilson, came into view around the left-hand bend of the Thames, a dot on the horizon in the far distance, it was almost too much trouble to watch...
...Hesburgh vision and trumpet have reached far beyond South Bend. He has always insisted that "my purpose is to produce educated Christians. I don't want to be Harvard, I want to be the greatest Catholic university in the world." Nevertheless, last fall he acted as point man for 111 Catholic college presidents who rebutted a Vatican schema for greater control over the appointment of theology professors at Catholic schools. Their objection was that such control could infringe academic freedom. "The church proclaims the word of God loud and clear without any doubts," says Hesburgh, whereas the "university...