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Ethnic and national tensions are perhaps most troublesome in Hungary. Not long before he died several weeks ago, Prime Minister Jozsef Antall declared himself the leader of 15 million Hungarians, pointedly extending his domain beyond the 10 million in the country. Antall, who was considered a moderate, is not alone. Many Hungarians want to protect their expatriate brothers currently enduring discrimination in Serbia, Romania and Ukraine. "If our reaching out to the West doesn't produce results in three or four years with something like NATO membership -- or its clear prospect -- the nationalists will roar back," says Istvan Gyarmati, Hungary...
Trotman: One thing that concerns me about this kind of discussion is the message that might be perceived in the public domain, that we are getting cozy together. We are talking public-policy issues here. And I'm sure there's a danger, because I've heard it from people out in the street, that we're starting to be less competitive with each other than we should be in the interests of society, and that's a message I sure would like to avoid getting, because I want to take every sale I possibly can from Jack...
...panel of student leaders last night called for the abolition of Radcliffe's administration and the integration of its programs into Harvard's domain...
...private citizen should have access to semiautomatic weapons, whether the waiting period lasts five days or five years. Certain weapons simply have no place in the public domain. But wars must be fought one battle at a time, and the Brady Bill battle certainly can be considered a victory for the forces of sanity and civilization. The Senate should not be congratulated for doing what is right, but the recent progress is encouraging...
...medications. To his credit, Freud foresaw this development. In 1938, a year before his death, he wrote, "The future may teach us to exercise a direct influence, by means of particular chemical substances." Still, the recognition that some neuroses and psychoses respond favorably to drugs chips away at the domain originally claimed for psychoanalytic treatment...