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Dukakis' New England ties mask a major disadvantage: his circumscribed career has brought him no closer to foreign policy than his morning newspaper. Dukakis' positions, which are still hazy, smack more of Harvard than of the heartland, which may be a problem in the South. He opposes the President's policies in Central America and on Star Wars but has yet to offer a positive program other than wispy references to world peace. Nonetheless, Dukakis' pragmatic liberalism is appealing to a party searching for a post-Reagan philosophy. Pollster Geoffrey Garin contends that Dukakis is the only Democrat able...
Ironically, Congress seems to be running out of patience with the contras just as the rebels are finally beginning to look like a fighting force. By the Sandinistas' own count, the rebels have infiltrated 5,000 men into Nicaragua (the contras claim closer to 7,000) since U.S. aid began flowing again last October. Freshly armed and newly trained, the rebels are currently keeping some 60,000 Sandinista soldiers engaged in the northern and central departments. Statistics kept by the Sandinista People's Army allege that rebels and government troops clashed 330 times during a recent five-week period, taking...
...this paradox that gives The Sunlight Dialogues its depth. Whereas law and order are fundamentally unjust, but able to survive, protest and chaos are incapable of enduring. Although The Sunlight Dialogues is set in the 1960s and uses the lingo of that decade, Gardner's book is far closer to the nightmare pessimism of Kafka's The Trial or Canetti's Auto-Da-Fe than to the hippie philosophizing of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...
...Closer to home, three vacation houses in Maine, catering on a first priority basis to faculty members and their immediate families, are owned and managed by Harvard Real Estate, Inc., the University's property holding company. In fact, all of Harvard's outside real estate possessions are owned and operated by the school's subsidiary firm...
Alabama could get no closer than seven points in the second half, the last time at 65-58 on guard Terry Coner's three-point play...