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...Like Jones, Koresh fashioned a tight-knit community that saw itself at desperate odds with the world outside. He plucked sexual partners as he pleased from among his followers and formed an elite guard of lieutenants to enforce his will. And like Jones, he led his followers to their doom...
Which is why Clinton's prospects from here cannot be rated all bad. It's true that the lost stimulus package will have a multiplier effect. Democrats like Senator Patrick Leahy predict doom for Clinton's new Russian-aid package because helping unemployed Russians is "self-evidently a tough sell" when "the jobs program for Americans is dead." And the men who control fiscal legislation, Senator Pat Moynihan and Representative Dan Rostenkowski, have signaled their displeasure with the investment tax credit and other Clinton revenue changes. "We invested a lot of time and spent a lot of political capital closing...
...discovering, the psychology of political opposition is complicated. Of course, for reasons both patriotic and selfish, you don't want calamity to befall the United States of America. On the other hand, it is hard not to relish a certain gloomy anticipation of seeing your predictions of doom come true. And as a practical matter, bad times are the + usual way the out-of-power side gets back...
...seemed absurd. But that was before the results started coming in from a group of long-term health studies of 10,000 gay men, begun in the late 1970s to mid-1980s. Scientists, prodded by AIDS activists who wanted to "study the healthy" and to lift the shadows of doom that surround the disease, have now documented at least 70 cases like Anderson's. Researchers are also beginning to find similarly healthy, long-lived survivors among women and children with HIV. There is now good reason to hope that at least 5% of the estimated 1 million Americans infected with...
...Even so, doom-and-gloom media stories are popping up everywhere. A week ago, the Boston Globe described its state's restaurant business as "limping through the past few years, when about one in every five establishments closed their doors," according to the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, which is affiliated with the national group. What the article failed to mention was that for every eatery that failed, a new one was launched...