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WHILE maintaining a vague aloofness from Harvard's day-to-day life, Wilson has made frequent reference to her "grand strategy" for Radcliffe. She has not yet publicly defined this strategy, but her actions give much hint as to its nature. It likely involves moving Radcliffe further onto the national research scene. Wilson's recent proposal for a gender and public policy institute, for example, promises to bring much needed money to the institution. This step was a good one--if Wilson is driving to make Radcliffe a research center. But if that is Wilson's major goal, why doesn...
...wants his listeners to join him in a smile, a rabbit chop or a wagging finger when he wants them to remember who is boss. His probing, dark brown eyes are constantly scanning his listeners, looking by turns stern, quizzical, amused, playful. When eyes meet, they both challenge and hint at shared confidences. Whatever lies nearby -- a fountain pen, a gray glasses case from a Paris optician, his gold-rimmed bifocals -- quickly becomes a prop for Gorbachev's one-man show. When the hands are at rest, his thumbs twiddle, not so much in impatience as with excess energy...
...comic overstatement, of course -- but the President was suddenly playing mysteriously coy. After hundreds if not thousands of repetitions that made "read my lips" the most memorable line of the 1988 campaign, Bush last week practically invited Congress to start pushing, with a hint that his lips might now frame something other than a flat no. The President asked congressional leaders to join Administration officials in a "summit" meeting to plan, at long last, a real whack at the runaway budget deficit. His spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said Bush wanted the talks to start with "no preconditions" and proceed "unfettered with...
...economic crisis. Virtually every republic and region of the country is dissatisfied with its piece of the economic pie, so each tries to protect its own interests any way it can. As long as the economy was growing -- and as long as the old political institutions suppressed any hint of nationalism or regionalism -- the system remained intact. But now the economy is in decline. That fact, combined with democratization, has doomed central planning and exacerbated the centrifugal trends that threaten to tear the country apart...
...destroying their cultures, Stalin greatly damaged the ethnic and cultural diversity that had always been an important part of Russia's strength. The state tried to replace ethnic and cultural differences with a deadening homogeneity. The very name of the country, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, carries no hint of ethnic or geographic reality...