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...governing is an imperfect art form at best, then Government bureaucrats are in a way consummate artists. Imperfection, of course, is a matter of degree. But last week, at three federal agencies, some choice examples of Imperfection's art were on display...
Such heresy is the trademark of the genial Ornstein. He listens patiently to the endless yammering of the special interests and the experts, then gently suggests that they step back and look at the forest instead of their own imperfect tree. "James Madison [the Federalist) would be pleased if he were here," declares Ornstein. "The best features of the checks and balances are in play. We are not being dominated by sets of insidious special interests. We are arriving at a set of centrist and sensible policies...
...spaceship traveling for lightyears? With the help of a couple of Mafia gunsels and a casino owner named Dashiel Gropius, the "futfic" author assumes command of the spaceship as it blasts into the galactic void. In the infinity that awaits, Val will be a "being warm, wayward, imperfect, adaptable...
...firmly denounced those who treat state property recklessly or guard private property jealously. His clear implication: the blame for an economic growth rate that last year was the lowest since World War II lies not with the machinery of the system but with the men who are its imperfect cogs. In essence, the article sternly reiterated Andropov's first policy speech, in which he decried Soviet inertia, incompetence and corruption with surprising frankness...
...Stivers now claim to be ready to accept their responsibilities. But the problem between Malahoff and themselves would never have arisen had Baby Doe arrived healthy. How far was this matter from a slightly different one in which some future Malahoff, while being proved the true father of an imperfect boy, decides nonetheless that a microcephalic baby was not what he had in mind? He would like to send it back, demand a refund. The law might stand in his way, of course, but the heart of the issue is not legal. A procedure has been devised in which...