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...city politicking in Chicago, one of their chief destinations. He frames that story within an account of how three successive White House administrations, from Kennedy through Nixon, were consumed by a debate over federal antipoverty efforts -- a Washington policy war that combined the worst features of academic detachment and fang-baring political ambition. His heroes are the migrants who managed to clamber into the middle class, mostly on the narrow foothold of modest government jobs. His villains -- and there are more of those -- are the politicians and policymakers of both left and right who botched the War on Poverty...
...White Fang-at 10:15, 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:30, Fri & Sat at midnight...
...world goes into chaotic motion, becomes a verb and not a collection of nouns. Reality blurs. Generals and Presidents need a clear eye for the truth. But the home front and the troops in the line are sustained less by truth than by emotion (propaganda, fang baring, plumage display) and their own myth. Saddam Hussein knows this and makes a fairly gaudy display of mystique. The leaders of the coalition arrayed against Saddam have their idealism and materialism in uneasy alignment, pretty much without illusions. The trouble is that they do not always trust their own people with the truth...
...spokesman neither confirmed nor denied whether some of the key democracy leaders had been formally charged, or whether they might be brought to trial at a later date. It is possible that Beijing is still betting on what dissident Fang Lizhi has called the "Chinese amnesia," the tendency of the country's people to forget past repression. That wager has paid off before. China's leaders seem to be hoping that the rest of the world will be equally forgetful...
...Bozeman, but he has no knack for academic decorum (administrators at the museum wish the rubber stamp could say, I DON'T GIVE A DARN WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS). He disdains intellectual showboating, describing his own tyrannosaurus as a "media specimen," valuable mainly because it will bring the fang-and-claw set into the museum to see really important stuff, like duckbills tending their offspring. His manner is casual and laconic, which fits with the scraggly beard, the sneakers and the bush hat. But when a volunteer presents some fossils he has gathered, Horner handles them attentively. Then he peers...