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Many are appalled at what they find: treachery by friends, parents, brothers, sisters, spouses -- some 200,000 "unofficial co-workers" in all. The custodian of the files, Joachim Gauck, warns former citizens of the east to "think twice before applying -- the shock could cause family catastrophes. One should look deeply inside oneself before making this decision...
...custodian of his own image, Clinton pores over the text and visuals for the television spots currently blanketing New Hampshire. The first was "easy," he says. "It conformed to the strategy." The 60-second spot ran through Clinton's proposals for reviving the economy and invited voters to visit their libraries to read the "Clinton Plan." He is now going further. The 15-page paper is being mailed to every registered voter in New Hampshire...
...memorabilia. John D. Rockefeller Jr. set about restoring colonial Williamsburg, Va., in the painstaking detail that only a billionaire could afford. In the '30s the New Deal was sponsoring research into folk art and folk songs. For the first time the government, not the private sector, became the main custodian of history...
Gorbachev would obviously prefer presiding over the largest country on earth to becoming the custodian of little more than a drafty fortress on the banks of the Moscow River. His friend Bush would rather have one phone number in his Rolodex than a dozen...
...another hundred years. The code we have to break is that of the warrior psyche." Keen, like Bly, regards the recent gulf war as a return to old and discredited metaphors, more a problem of George Bush's unresolved male identity than geopolitics. Man, he says, must become a custodian, not a conqueror, of the planet...