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Mussolini once remarked, "It is not impossible to govern the Italians, it is merely useless." It is not impossible to lead Americans as a nation. It is just that the Founding Fathers did not think it was a particularly good idea. Says Historian James MacGregor Burns: "Leadership itself is one...
Let a bad economic situation fester too long, and eventually there are no good policy choices. That was a favorite saying of the late Arthur Burns when he piloted the Federal Reserve Board through the inflation-ridden 1970s, and it applies with equal force to the dilemmas facing Government policymakers...
WARD--PRECINCT--LOCATION 11 Fire House, 173 Cambridge St. 1 2 Miller's River Apartments 15 Lambert St. Community Room, 663 Cambridge St. Entry 1 3 Truman Apartments 25 Eighth St., Community Room, Thorndike St. Entry 1 4 Harrington School, Cambridge St. 1 5 Harrington School, Willow St. 2 1...
Luxemburg's strong character is balanced by the strength of her companions. As Clara Zetkin, Doris Schade expertly comforts and complements Rosa. And Otto Sander, who plays Luxemburg's political ally Karl Liebknecht, burns with an impressive zeal.
Surprisingly, that background did not overly impress Baltimore's white voters last week; they preferred the more folksy Burns, 64% to 36%, perhaps because he was backed by the popular Schaefer. But Schmoke won 61% of the black vote and squeaked to victory with a bare 51% of the ballots...