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...tide has changed. Prompted by allies weary of fruitless peacekeeping and Congress pushing for some resolution, Clinton launched a vigorous initiative last August that has already resulted in a general ceasefire and has made peace a realistic prospect for the first time since war began five years...
...becomes apparent if one considers its irrelevance to the larger political community. If our generation wishes to make a difference, to influence politics in positive and constructive ways, it cannot simply indulge in infantile self-assertions of prerogatives to hedonism. And if editorialists wish their work to transcend the fruitless mockery of a peanut gallery, they must forsake their stylized satire for constructive engagement with reformers around them...
Part of Miller's point is that the instinctive but ultimately fruitless pursuit of More--the 60-hour workweeks, the hour a month spent perusing the Sharper Image catalog--keeps us from indulging what Darwin called "the social instincts." The pursuit of More can keep us from better knowing our neighbors, better loving our kin-in general, from cultivating the warm, affiliative side of human nature whose roots science is just now starting to fathom...
...simple as Frank Rich and others like him would have us believe. The world of action and the world of words are inextricably linked. Neatly separating these two worlds from each other and then determining which exerts more influence over the other is not only a fruitless task, but ultimately an impossible...
...Trade Representative Mickey Kantor met again with Japanese Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto in a final effort to resolve adispute over the car and auto parts trade. The U.S. wants Japan to open its market to American automakers, but so far the talks, set to end today, have been fruitless. President Clinton says he will impose punitive tariffs on Japanese products if an agreement cannot be worked out. At issue is the Japanese refusal to extend the 1992 pact that called for Japanese automakers to commit to purchasing more American-made parts. Nearly 60 percent of America's record $66 billion...