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Compounding Iran's difficulties, the government is divided and weak. President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and his allies have often been called pragmatists and their opponents hard-liners, but the labels do not convey the multitude of factions vying for power. "Only personal interests and family interests are priorities-for all of them," says a longtime diplomat. Though himself a mullah, Rafsanjani would like to weaken the clergy's grip on Iran's domestic affairs. But he lost control when a conservative, hostile parliament was voted in three years ago. "Rafsanjani is Iran's Gorbachev -- he wants...
...world is now enmeshed in webs of telecommunication networks consisting of millions of tiny threads or capillaries that not only transmit information of all kinds at lightning speed, but also convey integrated models of social, political and economic behavior...The life of the human race is completely interconnected not only in the informational sense, but in the causal sense as well....We are familiar with CNN and Chernobyl, and we know who the Rolling stones, or Nelson Mandela or Salman Rushdie...
...fact, Rudenstine has received praise allaround for his individual lobbying ofCongressional representatives and staffs. He isrenowned for the breadth of his knowledge,garnered from years of feverish reading. And he isknown for his ability to convey a clear sense ofthe benefits of higher education. Both of thesetalents help him immensely in his congressionallobbying...
Thank you for your in-depth coverage of the bombing in my hometown [COVER, May 1]. But no words or pictures will ever convey the great, hollow sadness that we here will carry with us forever. Even though I understand the need to place blame, the political rhetoric about conservative talk shows and fingers pointed every which way seemed profane, even grotesque when bodies of babies and fellow citizens were still being pulled from the rubble. We citizens here, the victims and their families have nothing to do with Waco, with militias or G. Gordon Liddy. We simply went...
City Step is a year-long program that attempts to convey the importance of self-expression, unity and community involvement to Cambridge kids. It is a difficult and strenuous effort for the Harvard volunteers. The difficulties that City Step volunteers encounter are many. The time commitment is one, but so is dealing with the problem of uniting students from many different public schools in the Cambridge area. The kids don't always get along, and the initial challenge comes in attempting to make all of the kids friends and have them trust each other. The task is formidable but teachers...