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...economic dream is post-capitalism -- a market economy plus civic responsibility, and a safety net plus spiritual contentedness. But what salvation will the free market bring to our elderly neighbor in Moscow, whose annual pension now equals a few dollars? What is freedom to travel if the lifting of price controls (as planned for the new year) raises the cost of a ticket to New York to more than twice Gorbachev's annual retirement pension...
Another test was acceptance by foreign governments, and the commonwealth was doing well on that score too. There was still a great deal of apocalyptic talk from analysts like CIA director Robert Gates, who warned that the former Soviet Union faced the greatest potential for explosive civic turmoil since the Bolsheviks consolidated their power roughly 70 years ago. But as the week wore on, the U.S. and its friends were beginning to face up to life without Gorbachev or a Soviet central government and to conclude that it might not be so awful after...
...report based on anecdotal observations, he said "there has been a secular decline of professorial civic virtue in FAS" and that several professors take advantage of a structure based largely on common law and an understanding that "a Harvard professor's primary obligation is to the institution, essentially students and colleagues--and that all else is secondary...
...court's conservative majority is taking its cues from the Bush Administration, it promises to go much further to usher in a new era of accommodation. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr argued the Administration's position in the Lee case. He maintained that the government promotion of + religion through civic ceremonies does not violate the Constitution if coercion is not involved. Students who did not want to pray at graduation, Starr implied, could sit without joining in prayer or skip the exercises...
Whether Martinelli, with this ill-advised remark, is practicing pit-bull politics for the Cambridge Civic Association or just for himself, I deplore the comment. There's nothing progressive about it. It turns back the clock to a time when Boston politics was marred by bitter ethnic divisions...