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Reed's irony swings into full force as Japanese administrators entrust Puttbutt with increasing power, which he promptly (ab)uses to get even with his arrogant colleagues. The Humanities are consolidated into one department which is reduced to the size and budget of ethnic studies, and Classicists who haven't published work in years are terminated unless they agree to teach freshman composition in Yoruba. Puttbutt's progression sheds light on issues of inconsistency which confront Blacks in positions of nominal authority as he begins to realize the destructiveness of alighning himself with any of Jack London's nationalist camps...
...simply a natural fascination with the new. A year ago, about the only people in Europe who had ever heard of Bill Clinton were former Oxford classmates. In contrast to the parliamentary democracies and their endless reshuffling of shopworn faces, America stands unique in its willingness to entrust power to outsiders. Hillary Clinton adds an unexpected twist -- a woman who has earned her place among the shapers of policy through merit as well as marriage. For Europeans, the choice seems clear: Would you rather read about the Clintons or the squabble over agricultural subsidies in the GATT negotiations...
...relationship became the first item of debate. Washington has consistently refused to entrust its soldiers to U.N. command, but this time Bush conceded a supervisory role to both Boutros-Ghali and the Security Council, not least because the President expects the U.N. to pick up where he leaves off. The Bush Administration would not have undertaken any deployment of its forces without firm assurances that blue helmets would replace the Americans in short order...
There was President Bush, visibly elated and upbeat after his strong showing in the third debate, addressing cheering crowds, hammering home with new fire and focus his message that voters should not entrust their government to a small-state Democratic Governor whose public policies and statements, Bush charged repeatedly, amounted to "a pattern of deception." But the President was saying these things in places like North and South Carolina, New Jersey, Florida -- states that have been secure Republican bastions during recent national elections. Campaigning so late in the race on formerly safe turf suggested, despite all the attendant euphoria...
...nonvoters are uninformed or uninterested. There are some -- hard to count, but intuition would suggest a large and growing number -- who study, and think deeply about, the issues. They listen to the candidates. And they find none to whom they would entrust the future of the country...