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...taken heat for praising Nazi policies, followed suit and also resigned. But E.U. leaders realize that the Freedom party remains an unsettling force in Austria, enjoying 33 percent support nationwide - a popularity fueled by Austrian resentment over the E.U.'s shunning of Vienna. So while Haider may fade into the background in the short run - he said he will concentrate full-time on being governor of Carinthia - E.U. leaders will do well to note that his right-wing isolationist policies are still in high demand...
...more often than not, when I asked people "Why Bush?" it was as if they had a zinc deficiency. The smile would freeze, the eyes would cloud and all signs of intelligence would fade. It could just be that Bush has had trouble defining himself--never uttering the word reform and then suddenly parading a banner--or that the nasty, lowbrow campaign in South Carolina made us all a little dumber...
What will cause this elite to fade in the next two or three decades is that the rest of the country doesn't seem to accept these people as our "natural aristocracy," to use a phrase of Thomas Jefferson's much loved by Conant. Their generally liberal politics don't set the tone for the country. They are the object of populist resentment more than of admiration; they're the "cultural elite" that politicians like to use as a foil. Oddly enough, the members of the old Wasp elite, though their high positions weren't as hard-earned, didn...
...home as well. It will challenge the cohesiveness of the family as children become self-sufficient citizens of the virtual world. The home will continuously readjust itself to the family's needs. As cyberspace becomes the kind of space that matters, the primitive territorial need for fixed rooms will fade, and the house will be divided among specific activities rather than simply among family members. So much for arguments among the kids over who gets the biggest bedroom...
Unfortunately, even these inchoate stirrings of competitive spirit will fade with maturity. As William Wordsworth (whose brooding peregrinations of the Lake District constitute perhaps the original Ironman sport) wrote, "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?/ Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" Someday even my daughter, or her daughter's daughter, will mist over at the memory of the androgen-swollen, coach-garroting, endorsement-besotted free agent ridiculing his teammates after a tough loss. Like today's purists who long for the bunt, the pick-and-roll and touch tennis, they too will pine for the good...