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Must fires always race, then gut...
...view, the main thing to watch out for in picking a successor to Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky was not picking another Henry Rosovsky. This is not to denigrate the outgoing dean, whose 11-year tenure will surely be looked upon as a success in dealing with the gut issues of the job--from straightening out the Faculty's finances to making strong Faculty appointments to revitalizing the undergraduate curriculum. But just as you don't "replace" Tom Landry as coach of the Dallas Cowboys, you don't replace someone like Rosovsky, who left his own idiosyncratic imprimatur...
...enough to reject his nomination. Yet Meese's role in many White House actions suggest an ideological rightist view of the law that goes beyond principled conservatism. Not only did Meese push tax exemptions for racist schools and Reagan's secrecy campaign, he also did all he could to gut the independence of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, to cut off legal aid for the poor, and to go as far as to call the American Civil Liberates Union a "criminal's lobby...
...Hunches, gut feelings and a broad-brush understanding of issues and public opinion: a convincing case can be made that Reagan is thus a true leader and not simply a Government supermanager, that he has a political vision and not just an agenda of piecemeal programs. A President should be able to fine tune domestic policy and negotiate intricate treaties, and Reagan is not very good at either. There are also times when a President needs to paint with bold strokes, and Reagan, an intuitive master of that art, seems content to do what he does best. -By Kurt Andersen...
Despite the high-level meetings, the State Department down-played the notion that some bold stroke was imminent. "The gut issues," said one official, "are not appreciably changed." But that cool appraisal understates the current, critical juncture for U.S. policy toward Central America, in particular El Salvador. Two days after Bush's ultimatum, Salvadoran extremists won worrisome victories: a rightist coalition in the legislature managed to weaken the three-year-old land-reform program, and leftist guerrillas in the field ravaged a U.S.-trained army battalion (25 dead, 45 wounded) in a ten-hour firefight. In Nicaragua, meanwhile...