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...WILLS' anti-myth; it goes something like this John F. Kennedy was basically a power-hungry adolescent, recklessly acting out James Bond style fantasies in the White House. The Bay of Pigs invasion was an ill-planned, impossibly romantic stunt, Kennedy's own baby rather than an Eisenhower inheritance. The Cuban missile crisis was a false "triumph"--manufactured by Kennedy in the first place, it nearly led to nuclear war as Kennedy tried to live up to his rhetoric and humiliate Khruschev. Whether it was his obsessive pursuit of women--which, one might say, made Kennedy's administration as illustrious...
...Bond for Bush...
Richard N. Bond, Deputy Chairman Republican National Committee Washington...
Most students agree that surviving years of "exam hell" provides one common experience, a bond that lasts through life. But there are those who do not survive. The pressure to do well can become so intense that some students commit suicide, even before attempting college entrance exams. The teen-age suicide rate in Japan is 17.6 per 100,000 (in the U.S. it is 10.9), and almost all of it is thought to be related to academic stress. This January one ronin electrocuted himself because he was afraid to take the college entrance exam a second time. Indeed, the universities...
Unwilling, or even unable, to pay the towering bond market rates, many localities, like corporations, have begun borrowing in the short-term market. Now, however, some are reaching the limit of their ability to do so. Bade County, Fla., which encompasses Miami, has run up $200 million in short-term debt, and county commissioners believe that is about as much as the county's taxpayers can afford. As a result, if rates do not ease back to more tolerable levels, the commissioners may wind up having to pick and choose among a long list of public projects, from seaport...