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...early as 1947, Kennan suggested that Soviet power "bears within it the seeds of its own decay" and that the U.S.S.R. might turn out to be "one of the weakest and most pitiable of national societies." But unlike the little boy in the fable, Kennan was largely ignored by the crowd when he dared to say out loud that perhaps the emperor in the Kremlin was not quite so resplendent in his suit of armor. Now along comes Gorbachev to announce his nakedness to the world, and Yakovlev to confide that he too feels a chill...
With so many intractable problems facing the FDA, Sullivan's blue-ribbon panel is unlikely to be enough to stop the agency's decay. Says Democratic Congressman John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee: "It was an attempt to look like they were doing something, but they aren't and they won't." In an effort to find some creative financing for the FDA, the White House has disclosed that it is considering charging user fees to companies that seek FDA approval for products. The size of the proposed service charges has ranged from an official White...
...nation's infrastructure is also in shambles. Roads, bridges, tunnels decay with each successive day. Here in Massachusetts, public works officials have said that the state faces a great infrastructure crisis...
...including a reunified Germany, might well result in the kind of safe, neutralized continent Moscow has long sought. The U.S. role would wither, and the Soviet Union, the largest land power, would be free to dominate. Josef Joffe, foreign editor of the Munich newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, argues that decay of the East bloc is not harmful to the Soviet Union as long as it does not proceed more quickly than the loosening of the transatlantic tie in the West. "If Gorbachev can pull this off," he says, "the rewards will be handsome: maximal Soviet influence in Europe, which will more...
...masters are now describing France on what Tocqueville calls "that fateful day" when Charles VII usurped the power of taxation from the people. From that point on, the decay into despotism was all but inevitable...