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...more importantly, this work exposes the tragic flaws of using psycho-biographical analysis to explain presidential decision-making. The psychological model dictates that his mother trained him to help the meek; but the political model--far more cogent when it comes to explaining this consummate politician's behavior--dictates that he pushed for civil rights programs to gain black votes. In this case as in others, the psychological model is only one of several ways to explain presidential decision making, and often the least important...
Although he wrote that the threat to the diversity and initiative by federal regulations is important, where Bok presented his most cogent arguments was in the field of skyrocketing university costs...
After only three years in Congress, Barbara Jordan, 39, the sternly eloquent Democrat from Texas, already commands more respect and power than many Representatives can look forward to in a lifetime. She serves on the House Judiciary Committee, where she voiced one of the most cogent and impassioned defenses of constitutional principles that emerged from the Nixon impeachment hearings; she is also on the Government Operations Committee, as well as the Democratic Steering Committee and the task force that drafted a Democratic plan to revive the economy last year. And she was the forceful co-chairman at the recent Democratic...
...Communists triumphed in Southeast Asia. Kissinger's laboriously constructed policy of détente was showing considerable wear as critics at home and abroad?not least of them the great Soviet writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn?complained that the Russians were exploiting the arrangement. But his critics were unable to present cogent alternatives to detente, and much of the opposition was based on unrealistic assumptions about what détente should or could achieve...
...series of News stories persuaded the New York legislature to put a freeze on future increases in state pension-plan membership. In a recent issue of [Morel the journalism review, Financial Commentator Louis Rukeyser rated the News' editorials on the city's financial plight as more cogent and less partisan than those of the Times and the Post, which he felt too often got bogged down in anti-banker diatribes. Says O'Neill: "We try to practice what I call 'preventive journalism.' Newspapers can no longer stand by and record crises as they occur...