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Despite the strains imposed on old friendships by the cemetery fiasco, broader common interests would surely prevent lasting ruptures. West Germany and the U.S. are staunch NATO allies and major trading partners. More personally, few Jews see Reagan as harboring any traces of anti-Semitism. His credentials as a champion of Israel remain unchallenged. Even his most effective critic, Elie Wiesel, spoke more in sorrow than in anger. It was obvious there was a concern for humanity in what the President was striving to achieve, no matter how awkwardly he went about it. What disturbed Reagan's friends and critics...
...Decisions Columnist Joe Klein's "The Blink Presidency" [Feb. 28] persuasively captured George W. Bush's tendency to pursue both domestic and foreign policies on the basis of "instantaneous, subconscious decision making." Unfortunately, this is the same tendency that characterizes addicted gamblers. But the stakes, as in the Iraq fiasco, have turned out to be devastatingly high for our entire country, tarnishing our image abroad. And if Bush gets his way regarding the "crisis" in Social Security, it will be another dangerous gamble for the American people. Ayodhya P. Gupta Somerset, New Jersey, U.S. How many ways will journalists like...
COLUMNIST JOE KLEIN'S "THE BLINK Presidency" [Feb. 28] persuasively captured Bush's tendency to pursue both domestic and foreign policies on the basis of "instantaneous, subconscious decision making." This is an unfortunate tendency. The stakes, as in the Iraq fiasco, have turned out to be devastatingly high for our entire country, tarnishing our image abroad. And if Bush gets his way regarding the "crisis" in Social Security, it will be another dangerous gamble for the American people...
...aside from the comments by Dershowitz, the Columbia fiasco has not sparked much more conversation in Cambridge...
Some argue that HBS and its application system, ApplyYourself, are really to blame in this whole fiasco because they should have had a better security system in place. But does that really excuse the rejected applicants’ actions? Someone who robs from a museum equipped with the best and most innovative security systems and another person who steals from an empty car with the windows left open are both committing the same crime. A misdeed is a misdeed regardless of how easy it is to commit...