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...confronted with knotty foreign policy problems is to make lots of noise but leave the hard calls to the President. "If he succeeds, they'll praise him; if he fails, they'll criticize him," said Representative Lee Hamilton, an Indiana Democrat. A Republican congressional staff member was even more blunt. "If the Commander in Chief wants to hang himself," he said, "who are we to take away his rope...
Last week, the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) put up posters calling into question the morality and wisdom of the homosexual lifestyle. Their posters are clear, concise and almost blunt. But they are by no means devoid of content, as AALARM's critics claim...
These reckless comparisons promulgated by the Harvard Heritage Society serve only to blunt the full impact of the evil that Himmler and his ilk unleashed upon the world. When one considers that the Society purportedly defends the interests of ethnic, racial, sexual and religious minorities, it is sickeningly ironic that they do so in a manner that mocks the millions, almost exclusively members of one or more of those minority groups, that suffered, bled and died under the systems of slavery and Nazism. To use flippantly the dead as a political device is to commit upon them a wrong...
...Emory Business School. "I don't see it. With support from Turner and Malone, Levin has a lot of new strength." Still, Malone and Levin must co-exist--and that may not be easy. Where Levin's style is subtle and elliptical, Malone's is famously brusque and blunt. Where Levin is slight and professorial, Malone has the square-jawed mien of the off-duty general--and the tactics to match. An executive who knows the parties well predicts that Malone and Turner will keep heavy pressure on Levin to produce. Not even Malone disputes that. He vows to remain...
That much modern psychopathology grows out of the dynamics of economic freedom suggests a dearth of miracle cures; Utopian alternatives to captialism have a history of not working out. Even the more modest reforms that are imaginable--reforms that somewhat blunt modernization's antisocial effects--will hardly be easy or cheap. Workplace-based day care costs money. Ample and inviting public parks cost money. And it costs money to create good public schools--which by diverting enrollment from private schools offer the large communal virtue of making a child's neighborhood peers and schoolyard friends one and the same. Yikes...