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...fleet's admirals deploy the world's largest naval force. The Soviets enjoy clear superiority in attack submarines (253 v. 73), cruisers and destroyers armed with ship-to-ship missiles (40 v. 0) and supply ships (2,358 v. 1,009). The Soviet navy, however, would have trouble rushing troops and planes to intervene in sudden political or military crises far from the U.S.S.R. The U.S. has more bases abroad and can act quickly because of its 14 attack carriers (the Soviets have none), 1,309 Navy fighter planes (v. none for the Soviets) and nearly...
Richard B. Freeman, associate professor of Economics, said Monday that white male college graduates no longer enjoy a substantial earnings advantage over their counterparts who lack degrees...
...long as America experienced massive and uninterrupted economic growth, Bell's argument implies, hedonistic self-interest could be bought off. There was enough surplus wealth created by the economic system that capitalists could enjoy dividends and workers pay raises; similarly, "special interests," like farmers and government workers, could have subsidies and increasing absolute shares of national income. In this way, hedonism, the villain of Bell's analysis, was defused as a political danger and displaced into the harmless arena of culture, which it has dominated since the late 19th century. The anti-capitalism of American avant-garde artists, writers, intellectuals...
What remains confused, however, is the underlying rationale for the show's abrupt shifts in mood, which are matched only by the noisiness of the set changes. To be sure, Bicentennial Follies is fun to watch; it's certainly possible to enjoy lilting voices and mildly amusing comic vignettes without insisting on dramatic coherence. If Bicentennial Follies gets good mileage out of the exposure and inversion of American values, it also illustrates the inversion of one good old American saying: for here is one case, at least, where the sum of the parts is infinitely greater than the whole...
After the appointment, Hume indicated that he had had no desire to leave Ampleforth. He learned of his appointment by telephone during dinner. Said he: "I must confess I did not enjoy the rest of the meal." But "a monk does not choose what he does; he does what he is told by his authorities...