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...wish and ask that our rulers who have Jewish subjects exercise a sharp mercy toward these wretched people," wrote Luther in 1543. "They must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in, proceeds without mercy to cut, saw and burn flesh, veins, bone and marrow." His harsh prescription was an unwitting forecast of the horror that was to come...
...conference of the China Writers' Association last January proclaimed the need for "creative freedom" and sanctioned the publication of "scar literature," the genre of harsh recollections of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. If greater truthfulness about national life in general is permitted to blossom, it will benefit not just the quality of literature but the entire body politic and will kindle a conscious--and unconscious--search among Chinese for the focus of their civilization...
...toiled in the league for nine seasons. So no sentimental memory inhibits Bird's self-assessment, just a typically restrained presumption that "people probably tend to forget how good players really were. I'm definitely one of the top ones today, but calling anyone the best ever is too harsh a statement. I put myself in the same category with John Havlicek, someone who works for everything he gets." Not that either MVP denies his ability. "This game is all confidence," Bird says, "and, you know, sometimes it's scary. When I'm at my best, I can do just...
...Political Scientist Alvin Rabushka contends that city services in general have declined despite federal aid. "If we spent more and got worse--if spending increases didn't translate into better services--it's hard to prove that cutbacks will lead to any deterioration," he argues. That view may seem harsh to local officials struggling to keep their cities from sliding deeply into debt, but it was clear last week that revenue sharing, at least in its present form, was in deep political trouble...
...important bargaining chip in his jousting with Washington. Yet the Soviets were cautious in dealing with Papandreou. After meeting with him in Moscow, Premier Nikolai Tikhonov and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko declared that Greece's positions on disarmament were close to the Soviet Union's, but they refrained from harsh attacks on the U.S. or NATO. So, for once, did Papandreou. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The Soviets have behaved quite subtly. They're hoping to exploit Greece's differences with its allies, but they know if they push too hard, it will backfire...