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When discussions of character become issues then they lead to the kinds of absurdities seen in Judge Ginsburg's case. Some experimenting with marijuana and the poor man is forced to make statements to the press. To those of us in college now, that comes as quite a blow. Gov jocks must quaking about that crazy night at Quincy when they got sick on the Master's residence or that paper extension that turned into three weeks. How much should mistakes now cost us later...
...Fiedler, who was the lead reporter in the stakeout that broke the Gary Hart-Donna Rice story. Last week Fiedler wrote in a column that the "character issue" was now being carried to "absurd" lengths. David Broder of the Washington Post, the paper that delivered the final blow to Hart, also fretted. "It's time to slow down and take another look at what we're doing," Broder wrote, "before more damage is done...
Then on Oct. 19 came the worst blow of all. The stock market collapsed, threatening to turn the city's golden economy to dross. Koch's miracle recovery had been built on the financial and business-service industries. Samuel Ehrenhalt, regional commissioner of labor statistics, puts the number of new jobs in the Koch era at 400,000. Openings on Wall Street more than doubled, while New York's traditional manufacturing base was allowed to fade. Now if Wall Street has caught cold, the city may come down with pneumonia. Economist Matthew Drennan of New York University's Graduate School...
Such success seemed a remote prospect when, a few days before the summit began, King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia announced he would stay home, a decision that was seen as a blow to King Hussein's prestige. Fahd's absence set off a new round of speculation about his effectiveness as a leader. Saudi watchers in Washington and Arab capitals say the King, in power since 1982, has proved disappointingly indecisive in dealing with Saudi Arabia's economic problems and its worsening relations with Iran. In addition, the King's battles with diabetes and obesity are said...
Aquino's problems came into sharp focus after the bloody August mutiny of Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan. The unsuccessful uprising revealed a faction-ridden military envious of Aquino's power and unwilling to give up the political clout it had gained under Marcos. The mutiny's chief blow, however, was struck at the President's almost blind faith that the democratic institutions she had restored would lead the country out of its economic and political morass. The relative serenity of her first few months in power was, after Honasan's coup attempt, reinterpreted as weakness...