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...emigration, human rights and arms | control. Topping it off was a unilateral decision to cut within two years total Soviet armed forces 10%, withdraw 50,000 troops from Eastern Europe and reduce by half the number of Soviet tanks in East Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. If George Bush can build on it, this surprise announcement could reinvigorate conventional arms-control talks, which in turn could help the U.S. out of its budget morass and alleviate strains within NATO over how to share the burden of maintaining a sturdy conventional and nuclear defense...
...would again find itself unable to seize the initiative or provide an imaginative response. Gorbachev's U.N. speech was the most resonant enunciation yet of his "new thinking" in foreign policy, which has the potential to produce the most dramatic historic shift since George Marshall and Harry Truman helped build the Western Alliance as a bulwark of democracy. But as the Soviets play the politics of da -- saying yes to issue after issue raised by the Reagan Administration -- the U.S. seems in peril of letting its wary "not yet" begin to sound like nyet...
This new trend in Black studies should have a profound effect on the direction of Afro-Am at Harvard, which is beginning to build up after having lain dormant for nearly a decade...
...whether or not Harvard succeeds in hiring Gates or Rampersad, Sollors, who himself focusues on Black literature, says the recent innovations in literary studies will have an impact on the future of the field at Harvard. "We have a very interesting recent mountain of good books upon which to build," he says...
More than risky, it seems downright foolish to put an entire company on the line for no better reason than abject short-term greed; still, buyouts are popular among today's large-scale financiers, people who are no longer innovative entrepreneurs who build companies from scratch, but tricky accountants who raise dividends any way they can. Now, following the example of Ross Johnson, the chief executive officer of RJR who tried to take over the company for himself, they don't work for the stockholders--they work for themselves...