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...principle at work in the heart of things: at sea, the white whale, Moby Dick, would serve the purpose. Around his home in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Melville had to strain himself to turn a locomotive into a dark metaphysic: "Hark! here comes that old dragon again--that gigantic gad-fly of a Moloch--snort! puff! scream!" "Great improvements of the age!" he wrote contemptuously. "Who wants to travel so fast? My grandfather did not, and he was no fool." Earlier in the 19th century, there were those who thought that traveling faster than 20 m.p.h. would cause insanity...
...presented," Ike told colleagues. "I sense a difference between a man's convictions and what he believes is politically feasible." Hearing those words last week, Powell merely smiled. We may never have a better summation of Powell's political philosophy than the one Ike propounded almost 50 years ago. "Gad," said Eisenhower (who wondered why he couldn't head both tickets), "how I wish that both parties had the courage to go out for militant advocacy to the middle of the road...
...maybe he's right. Maybe it's no big deal if Mexico's President, who's made such strides toward democracy and private enterprise, is toppled and anti-American sentiment fueled. Maybe it's just politics as usual. Gad, what a depressing thought. But as a matter of fact, he's not right. This is a big deal. Where he is right is that the past 12 years were great for the rich and not so great for the working man. But President Clinton had that in mind in the way he attacked the deficit. Economically, a much higher energy...
Although these penalties are relatively mild, Israeli officials are enraged at the very prospect of facing U.N. sanctions. "To put us in the same category as Iraq, Serbia and Libya -- it's unacceptable," says Rabin's spokesman, Gad Ben-Ari. "We've not swallowed another country or massacred thousands of people or harbored terrorists who blew up a packed airplane." To . block approval, Jerusalem has embarked on an intensive lobbying effort. Rabin took the unusual step of calling all ambassadors accredited to Israel to a late-night meeting at his office in Tel Aviv. There, they were served cold sodas...
...reasoned and pragmatic tone, inviting the Palestinian negotiators for an informal parley before the next formal session in Rome, in a month or two, and pledging to bargain continuously until agreement is reached. "Rabin believes that the expectations the Israeli public has of him are very high," says Gad Yaacobi, designated to become Israel's next U.N. ambassador. "He would like to fulfill them early on in his term so as not to erode his political capital." In a more concrete vein, Housing Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer announced that the government was for the moment freezing all public housing starts...