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...power in 1991 by boldly scrambling atop a tank outside the besieged White House. These days Yeltsin appears increasingly lugubrious; the spring is missing from his step when he shuffles down the long red carpet at the Kremlin, and there are embarrassing pauses when he answers off-the-cuff questions. These subtle signs only heighten the sense, already gaining credence in Moscow from Yeltsin's political struggles, that the President is slipping...
Another off-the-cuff Peres remark elicitedoutright guffaws from audience members...
...biggest heroes on this campus is tried-and-true conservative Professor Mansfield, who always manages to elicit some steam with his sometimes-well-thought-out, sometimes-off-the-cuff statements. Of all of the campus figures I've known in my ephemeral time at Harvard, he's the one who's done the most to make students think. (Of course, second prize goes to "Toaster Tutor" Noel Ignatiev, who criticized an appliance and left hundreds of discussions in his wake. And he's a Marxist...
Such a modest and self-effacing style has not always been characteristic of a town that is better known for the flash and brassiness of its bosses, with cuff links the size of silver dollars and stogies the length of private yachts. Although few people outside the industry know their names, the three men who have ascended to power at GM, Ford and Chrysler within the past year have been working hard to accomplish what many said Detroit could never do: reinvent itself and profitably build cars that can stand bumper to bumper with the best the Europeans and Japanese...
Mansfield's comments typically seem casual and off-the-cuff, but they are clearly calculated to generate the most adamant and angry response possible (either that or he's just dump, and compelling as this possibility seems, it's unlikely). It is sad that, as part of a minority of conservatives on campus, he does not take more seriously his self-proclaimed responsibility to contribute meaningfully to intelligent discussion at Harvard...