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...child defenders go to the courts attempting to take children away. "I think my biggest problem with the job," says Ferzoco, who like Belisle now acts as a phone screener, "was going to court all the time and seeing the judge return kids to parents who I knew for certain were going to go on hitting them...
...toward overstatement, Carter deliberately adopted a cautious, realistic, even humble, attitude toward his struggle with inflation. "I do not have all the answers," he admitted. "Nobody does." He conceded frankly: "We have tried to control it, but we have not been successful." His new policy, he said, "is almost certain not to succeed if success means quick or dramatic changes. A long-term disease requires long-term treatment." But he pleaded: "It is up to us to make the improvements we can, even at the risk of partial failure, rather than to ensure failure by not trying...
...this week the speed reader from Plains may be pondering the works of Rudyard Kipling ("If") and John Greenleaf Whittier, who wrote, "Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: 'It might have been.' " It might have been that if Carter had taken certain steps earlier, inflation would be lower, the economy would be stronger and the President would be more popular. Hindsight, of course, is one of the few cheap things in this inflationary age. But it has value as a guide to those who do not wish to be condemned to repeat...
...feet, commenting on whatever comes into his mind. But he also appears to have no trouble relaxing at his Washington home, where he lives with his wife, Mary, a silk-screen artist; they have three children. Kahn swims, skis, jogs and likes to sing Gilbert and Sullivan tunes. A certain whimsy is often on display. In a memo he once urged his staff to avoid gobbledygook and write "as though you are talking to or communicating with real people. I have heard it said that style is not substance, but without style what is substance?" Kahn concluded: "A final example...
...Carter. Very recently we have seen certain positive changes in the way that the Administration conducts its policy toward the U.S.S.R. Now there seem to be no attempts to tie the important question of SALT with questions that have no relevance, such as human rights. Almost anything has to be better than last summer [when Washington, among other things, criticized the trial and conviction of Soviet Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky]. President Carter is more experienced; he has learned from unsuccessful policies. We don't regard him as a weak President. But neither can we call him a strong President...