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...furor over Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation had the air of a dry run for a much bigger event that suddenly seemed entirely plausible: Mikhail Gorbachev himself quits in disgust or exhaustion or defeat, and the world is abruptly confronted not just with a new Soviet leader but a new -- or perhaps an old -- Soviet Union...
...civil rights activist from Eastern Germany. She warns of the possibility of a "corruptible parliament with members susceptible to blackmail" for their Stasi past. Says Karl-Dietrich Bracher, a political scientist at the University of Bonn: "If we were to have a general amnesty, there would be a general disgust with politics. Some kind of purification is necessary...
Higgins, 51, grouched cheerfully about such matters over an easeful lunch in what must no longer be called the men's bar at Locke-Ober, hard by the Boston Common. Books, as distinct from best sellers, just aren't thought important, he says. He notes with disgust that even in the most literate city in North America (that's Boston), the leading paper (the Globe, though he deplores its preachiness) barely bothers to scrape together a Sunday book-review section. And justifies this lapse (says Higgins, a onetime Globe columnist) because it doesn't get enough book ads. "Does...
Hughes looks at the job he did against B.U. with some disgust, although Assistant Coach Lane MacDonald--and everyone else--was repetitive in his positive comments about Hughes' performance...
...widely deplored, and then used to great effect. How can voters fail to be cynical when politicians buy their jobs by selling favors and use the money to ensure that voters don't get much of a chance to punish them? Public opinion surveys around the nation registered disgust and sorrow at the processes by which lawmakers are elected and through which they govern. As long as American politics drifts away from democracy's dreams, the voters' only real choice will...