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...lveda, an articulate former professor of international law who served as Ambassador to Washington for nine months in 1982, stressed how important the Mexicans consider the subject. As the round of meetings began, he told his American visitors, "We are sure that a rapprochement between the distinct interpretations, perceptions and actions on these problems is not only desirable but rather an urgent condition...
...perplexing to watch Rockwell extol an "outsider" or vanguard composer for'eign willing to depart from the ordinary and then give the distinct impression that his subject is not worth writing about. In the middle of a discussion of the problems posed by minimalist composer Philip Glass, he says of the subject of an earlier essay. "A composer like [Frederic] Rzewski can shift facilely from idiom to idiom because, to be blunt, nobody cares what he does, least of all the people...
There is, then, a crucial difference between a policy of deterrence and Reagan's nuclear policy. A policy of deterrence is designed to avoid nuclear war. Reagan's policy rests on the belief that nuclear war is a distinct possibility, even a likely occurrence; it is a policy for surviving nuclear...
...result, the Soviet Union was at a distinct and permanent advantage. Its bargaining chips, the SS-20s, were already on the table, and its ability to play them was not subject to the veto of nervous allies. Even if the Soviets fail in their first objective, which is stopping deployment altogether, the episode will be likely to leave the alliance internally traumatized and all the more susceptible to divisive Soviet tactics in the future...
Freeman concludes his book asserting that the case of Samoa shows that neither biological nor cultural determinism is unacceptable on its own and that both must be considered in accounting for human behavior. He advocates the currently popular "view of human evolution in which the genetic and exogenetic are distinct but interacting parts of a single system." Freeman seems to believe that the old nature-nurture debate is over, but he is unfortunately mistaken. The opinion that the genes dictate and determine all continues to be expressed in psychology, evolutionary biology, and anthropology...