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Professor of English and Comparative Literature Barbara E. Johnson, who brought the motion to the Faculty, said the vote was partially meant to stand as a "counterweight" to the University's choice of Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell as a Commencement speaker...
...campaign has made its noisy way across a nation that has lost many of its defining ideas about itself. The cold war's end gave Americans only a kind of abstract triumph -- and left a void. The collapse of communism and the Soviet empire suddenly removed the dark moral counterweight by which Americans measured their own virtue. Chronic recession, the rise of Japanese and European economic competitors, the vast inflow of immigrants from non-European sources (strangers to the older American tradition), the shrinking of the buffering Atlantic and Pacific oceans (jet travel, satellites, global distribution of goods), all these...
...approaches it is China, a nation the President professes to understand better than any of his advisers. To Clinton, Bush's "coddling" of China's aging leaders after the Tiananmen Square massacre is "unconscionable. There was a case for looking the other way when we needed China as a counterweight to Moscow," says Clinton. "But there's no need to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand, no need to ignore China's spreading dangerous weapons technologies and its trampling of human rights. I would deny most- favored-natio n status to China, impose...
...voice that stands up to the test of her role's legendary difficulties, completely fails to command the first majestic and then terrifyingly desperate presence that the music indicates. She slouches across the stage in a posture of submission, and her character doesn't provide the necessary evil counterweight to Sarastro's embodiment of good...
Even so, Central European countries like Hungary and Poland are still apprehensive about the intentions of their big neighbors, Germany and the Soviet Union. They want to keep the U.S. engaged as a counterweight, preferably through NATO. The Soviets, for their part, also want continued American participation -- and investment -- in Europe, but not through the framework of the Atlantic alliance that, as they see it, was created with the sole purpose of confronting them...