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...news conference later, the President denied any intention to "gloat" or "crow" yet could scarcely restrain himself. Said he: "I do think ((the victory is)) going to be helpful in reaching accommodation in the House and Senate on some of our objectives." Added Mary Matalin, Republican Party chief of staff: "It's just another case where people underestimated the tenacity of George Bush. When he gets pushed up against the wall on something that he knows and cares about, he does whatever is necessary...
...have to do more in the 1990s than gloat over the demise of communism," says Felix Rohatyn, the Wall Street investment banker. "That demise may be due to our ideas, but the way we are now exploiting those ideas is not making us competitive with the Europeans and the Japanese. Our cities are really falling apart; our educational system is in great disarray; and in order to finance our budget and trade deficits, we're selling more and more of our businesses. Our Government is unable to govern because it has no money, or it is using the fact that...
...face it. During the baseball season, we define ourselves through our beloved teams. We suffer and complain when they lose. We gloat to our friends and slap hands with strangers when they win. We pick out little things to love about them and ignore their obvious drawbacks...
...still possible as long as you are careful not to gloat," says a low-level government official in Beijing. "That's where I think the students went too far. They forced a crackdown by causing the leaders to lose face when Gorbachev visited. Problem is, the students weren't up on their Mao." Had they been, they might have come upon a 1927 essay in which the future Chairman identified atrocity as a desirable power-holding tactic. "To right a wrong," Mao wrote, "it is necessary to exceed the proper limits, and the wrong cannot be righted without the proper...
Understanding the challenges that will arise from the fracturing of the Soviet bloc will help the U.S. avoid the unseemly tendency to gloat. But it should not obscure the epochal nature of the change occurring. Poland and Hungary are abandoning the basic tenets that Lenin distorted after Marx and that Stalin distorted after Lenin: a rigidly centralized economy, a one-party political system and a suppression of personal freedoms. People are electing their representatives for the first time. They are reading independent newspapers and starting their own businesses. They are even tearing down the fences that have kept the world...