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Edwards' task, therefore, has been mainly to push through deregulation and, as he once put it, "to work myself out of a job." But he has been uncertain about when and how to lift controls on natural gas and has a narrow grasp of the issues involved. His major initiative has been to support the troubled nuclear power industry, primarily by speeding up licensing procedures and pushing forward with the Clinch River breeder reactor in Tennessee, a $3.2 billion boondoggle whose principal beneficiary will be Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. At best Edwards gets a C. That would hardly...
Schiller, long before silicon chips, believed that man could attain Mortality through Play. Man would play. He would develop his aesthetic senses and grasp Beauty, even the Sublime. The revolutions of the 19th century would not occur: "No privilege, no autocracy of any kind, is tolerable where taste rules, and the realm of aesthetic semblance extends its sway." The California hot-tub view of history...
...arrival, has become "a running joke," Higgins says. Obviously, prospective munchers can't buy if they're broke, but "after you've given change for four new, crisp twenties in a row, what are you supposed to do with the fifth?" Higgins laments. "People can't seem to grasp that: we've had people spit in our faces, throw coffee at us, when we refused a sale or wouldn't give change." The 400 or so customers who pass through daily and want coins for the T or laundry don't help matters...
...made." Predicted another top aide: "He's going to bleed to death." Already there was talk in the White House about finding a replacement for Stockman. That, however, will not be easy. Shaky as those elusive budgetary numbers may be, not many people have so firm a grasp on them as has David Alan Stockman...
...politicians are clowns" line. Case closed. One of the few exceptions to this tendency is his clear opposition to foolhardy American adventurism abroad, particularly in response to "raging communism." Yet he balances this point of view with a childishly xenophobic portrayal of the Soviets and Chinese, who barely grasp concepts like soap and water and uniformly adhere to their government's propaganda about the outside world...