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...done anything creative--not for social programs, where his spending is generally generous but his innovations negligible, and not in taxing, where he's maintained the status quo. (His prison-building record could make Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) blush, though.) He's called by friend and foe alike an "incrementalist"--not a true reformer...
...brewing, and there are going to be some walls falling down," predicts party member Conn Hallinan. "Gus has to go. I don't care if the man shows up in love beads and says, 'Everybody do your own thing'; he'd still have to go." Dorothy Healey, a longtime foe who left the party in 1973 but still has pipelines into it, agrees. "It's like that old Lord Acton saying: 'Power corrupts,' " says Healey. "It's very sad because it's not just the Communist Party but the left that has to come to terms with a new reality...
...standing among a people disgusted with his halfhearted economic reforms and political vacillation. He could have gone out to thank the Muscovites who had struggled for him as they defied the spectral Stalinists who were trying to bring back the past. He could have publicly embraced his former foe, Boris Yeltsin, and accepted with a flourish the sudden, almost unlimited opportunity to create a new society atop the wreckage of the Soviet system...
Keen's book arises from his belief that men have lost a unifying vision of masculinity, and are "involved in a night battle in a jungle against an unseen foe." That foe is not woman (or WOMAN, as Keen puts it, in one of the book's annoying New Age constructions), but man's unconscious bondage to women. Modern man, he suggests, easily won his Oedipal battle: the boy snags Mom because Dad is preoccupied at the office and she's hankering for a little affection. This Oedipal victory ties men to women in an unhealthy way, and Keen believes...
...during World War II, immunologists have determined just what makes for a good tissue match. Research dating from the 1960s shows that the immune system has developed its own set of molecular passwords, called human leukocyte antigens, that identify every nerve, every capillary, every organ as either friend or foe. If a cell displays the right HLA molecules on its surface, the T cells will leave it alone. If not, it gets zapped...