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...Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, has been examining the President's initiative. He told TIME: "Reagan's proposals are not fair. They are not equal. They are an attempt to disarm us." Yet Bogdanov did not reject the President's offer, nor did he dwell on the American failure to ratify SALT II. "What we are objecting to is not the offer to negotiate," he said. "It is the way the offer has been tendered. Our principal position is that we are ready to negotiate...
Throughout the ages, leprosy has been looked upon with contempt and horror. The Bible enjoins lepers to "dwell alone," wear torn clothing and cry out "Unclean, unclean." In the Middle Ages lepers were barred from public buildings, forbidden to speak with children and required to sound a bell or clapper. The very word leper came to mean outcast...
...been to make The Globe a cheerful, attractive and useful newspaper that would enter the homes as a kindly, helpful friend of the family. My temperament has always led me to dwell on the virtues of men and institutions rather than upon their faults and limitations. My disposition has always been to build up rather than to join in tearing down. My ideal for The Globe has always been that it should help men, women and children to get some of the sunshine of life, to be better and happier because of The Globe...
...issue is nuclear war and its medical consequences. That's it." In an ongoing series of symposiums across the country, members lecture about the horrific consequences of a 20-megaton bomb explosion, from the moment of impact to the long-term effects of radiation sickness. "As soon as you dwell on the effects of a nuclear bomb," says Halsted, "the coffee cups stop rattling...
...extent that policymakers and spokesmen for both left and right can avoid historymongering, so much the better. There is a converse to Philosopher George Santayana's famous warning, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." It is equally true that those who dwell obsessively on the past are prone to poor analysis, divisive debate, unconstructive criticism and bad decisions as they face the future. In short, they are doomed to ask the wrong questions, which can only yield the wrong answers. -By Strobe Talbott