Word: burnham
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...differentiate between helping the sick or impoverished and helping those in war-torn countries? How do you decide who to help? -Adam Burnham, Austin, TX I think any help is helpful. I don't think you have to beat yourself up too much about 'who do I help?' and 'where do I start?". I think the desire to help and start is a wonderful thing...
...James Burnham, the most important conservative foreign-policy thinker of the early cold war, called this "the catastrophic point of view." And a half-century before George W. Bush took office, Burnham urged the Truman Administration to embrace it. In the years following World War II, the U.S. already had a nuclear bomb, and the Soviets were getting closer. So Burnham proposed preventive (what Bush would have called "pre-emptive") war--to protect America before it was too late...
...Burnham wasn't the only one. The idea that America must act proactively against its enemies, or else grow inexorably weaker, was a staple of the cold war right. "Like the boxer who refuses to throw a punch," warned Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, "the defense-bound nation will be cut down sooner or later." In the 1960s, with China rushing toward the Bomb, preventive war was proposed again...
...depressive self absorption in “Adaptation” will find something to like here. As an archetype of a lonely middle aged man, Spritz has both his literary and cinematic forebears: Frank Bascombe in “The Sportswriter”’ and Lester Burnham in “American Beauty”’ both come to mind. Unlike these men, however, whose alienation stems in part from being faceless strangers in the crowd, Spritz is a celebrity. Like any average Joe, he’s constantly screwing up with his kids and wife...
...Wall Street, reaction to the ruling was mixed. Drexel Burnham Lambert, the investment firm that first used junk bonds, called the decision "unwise and unwarranted." Drexel points out that of the $18 billion worth of junk bonds issued last year, less than 20% was used in takeovers. One supporter of the Federal Reserve was Felix Rohatyn, a partner of Lazard Freres, an investment banking house, who has been a critic of the use of junk bonds in hostile takeovers. Said he: "This was a sound step to curb the most extreme uses of junk bonds...