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With unusual candor, the new President told his countrymen that "Mexico is undergoing a grave crisis." He noted that unemployment was high (between 10% and 15%) and that inflation would reach almost 100% this year. De la Madrid expressed concern about the "mistrust and pessimism" engulfing the country. "We are not a defeated or bankrupt nation," he said. "I will not allow our homeland to crumble away through our fingers...
...politics, candor is what comes later, after the fact. Or, as Richard Nixon said on Good Morning America: "You have to dissemble, you have to recognize that you can't say what you think about [an] individual because you may have to use him or need him some time in the future. There's a lot of hypocrisy and so forth in political life." Nixon is world class in dissembling (thus the Watergate shock about his private language). But other political figures in their new memoirs are now talking with some candor about-among other things-what they...
Invitations to the White House are de rigueurfor Nobel prizewinners, but candor in the White House press room is not. Thus there were more than a few red faces at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue last week when conservative University of Chicago Economist George Stigler, 71, after a little chat with President Reagan in the Oval Office, was led into the briefing room for a few minutes with reporters. Someone half-heartedly asked the new Nobel laureate what he thought of Reaganomics. The professor, who is said to be a tough grader back home, lived up to his reputation, saying that...
...objectives of the conference are sincere, and, if Epps is typical, the meeting provided deans an opportunity to look at their roles with rare candor. They had done their homework: Two years of planning and a year-long survey on stress of more than 3000 college students preceded the conference. The College Task Force, an ad hoe committee of 11 New England college deans sponsored by the Boston-Area Medical Foundation, has met monthly since the fall of 1979 to discuss how best to understand and respond to alcohol and drug abuse, and with this conference is moving to wrestle...
Psychotherapist Herships changed his mind about candor. He was involved with a woman while on vacation in Montreal. After he told her, "herpes became the focal point for our relationship. It made her anxious. It made me anxious. It diminished the experience." His solution: if you are not having an attack of herpes at the time, then don't tell, because the risk of transmission...