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...actually exists . . . He understands the hunger, and he supplies the nourishment. The hunger is for the Good Old Days --the black-eyed tomboy, the hopeless, lovable pup, the freckle-faced young swain . . . sensations which we no longer have but still seem to want; dreams of innocence before it went corrupt." Reagan also understands the hunger. He does not delve cynically into the layers of American memory. He is not as mythically cute as Rockwell. He is simply saturated in the American identity, as, say, an utterly different leader, Charles de Gaulle, was saturated in the French...
...White House official: "It's not our biggest win. But it's one of the most satisfying in terms of both content and the fact that we came from behind." Opponents were more pessimistic, predicting that the aid would lead to greater U.S. military involvement in support of a corrupt rebel force. Said Michigan Democrat David Bonior: "The contra program has been rotten from the start...
...some social and political moments ofpassion. Castro at the stadium before we knew hewas going to corrupt his revolution, excited us.So did John F. Kennedy '40, the Democratic nomineewhen he showed up his at his first Board ofOverseers meeting. I saw him that day, as did manyof the Class...
...most fundamental issue before Aquino is how to undertake a thoroughgoing purge of Marcos' corrupt legacy without seeming authoritarian. On the local level, for example, the new government has already removed 71 of the 74 governors and 52 of the 60 city mayors who belong to Marcos' party. But in discharging them so peremptorily, the President has sparked complaints that she is indulging a Marcos-like self-interest. "I thought she was going to be a nonpartisan President," grumbles Richard Gordon, the dynamic young mayor of Olangapo, who was replaced by an Aquino appointee. "But it's still personality politics...
...disagree about the relative importance of openness concerning funding compared to openness of sources and other sources of corruption of scholarship. I repeat that the focus on sources of funding and the relative neglect of the issue of openness reflects a broader erosion of principles that all scholars as scholars share with one another concerning intersubjectively valid ideas of evidence and its assessment. The work itself, its arguments and evidence, is the thing, a more important thing, in my opinion, than knowing who paid for it. Openness is a value. So is my right to privacy. I always have been...