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Israel, in reality, is a volcano in action. No longer a tribe and not yet a nation, no longer Orthodox Judaism and not yet a new civilization. Gone is the messianic belief in one redeeming formula; yet to be discovered is the gradual way toward recovery. The conflict with the surrounding Arab world helped, ironically, to establish, to strengthen and to integrate Israel as one community. But peace has become an imperative need, precisely for those Zionists whose vision consists, not of a miraculous messianic formula, but of a slow painful therapy for a very old and very sick nation...
...schedule is any indication, the ABC formula for success-sex and comedy-is about to be copied by the industry. Even if the new shows fail, the pilots that are ready to take their place are only more of the same. "We're in the jiggle stage," says Dorkin, "and all three networks will be running girlie shows next year. The sex is more implicit than actual in those shows, and the titles are usually more titillating than the shows themselves. But people do watch them...
...pressure has been building for a number of years for a re-instatement of another Vietnam-era favorite, the Selective Service System. The movement has been subtle, of course: no bills have been introduced to Congress yet, and so far very few Congressmen have gone to the stumps with formula-like speeches about devotion to God, flag and motherhood. But lobbying for the draft has apparently gone on behind the scenes, taking the less obvious form of news documentaries, reports of "concerned citizens' groups," and the ever-present Pentagon predictions of an impending apocalypse. A recent CBS-TV documentary...
Polls show the outcome uncertain, with nearly half the electorate still undecided. In a desperate effort to defeat Jarvis-Gann and appease homeowners, Governor Jerry Brown is backing a more modest Behr amendment. It uses a complex valuation formula to prevent local governments from increasing property taxes for homeowners by much more than the inflation rate. That is part way to a good idea. The solution is not holding down any one tax, but holding them all down, and the best way to achieve that is to curb spending by government itself...
...most humanitarian science. It involves observing things and making hypotheses, not just plugging things into a formula," Danguole J. Spakevicius '81, who will concentrate in Biology, said yesterday...