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...These meetings are friendly and constructive,but they can get quite lively--I won't say heated,but they can be more than just pleasant to-ing andfro-ing. Because the fundamental idea is to getgood criticism from colleagues outside one's ownschool. That's tremendously important," saysRudenstine...
...some councillors hedged on sending the prince a reprimand, say- ing the first message a foreign visitorreceives should not be threatening...
Both documents will be adopted at Rio, but neither bears much resemblance to the original conception. After weeks of debate, the Earth Charter was abandoned and replaced by a woodenly written declaration filled with the kind of pious promises ("eradicating poverty," "eliminat((ing)) unsustainable patterns of production and consumption") that world leaders often make but never keep. In what is perhaps the worst example of bureaucratic obfuscation, ^ the text at one point endorses the promotion of "appropriate demographic policies" -- the nearest negotiators could come to confronting the explosive issue of population control...
What Perot has tapped is the spirit of volunteerism that so entranced Tocqueville 150 years ago, the this-is-a-new-land-and-we-can-do-anyth ing ethos that once defined the national character. Ross Perot in three short months has out of nothing created something far larger than a multibillion- dollar company, or perhaps something even larger than the multimillion- dollar campaign he will fund. Win or lose, his populist crusade and the challenge he is mounting to the establishment parties may well help break the deadlock of American democracy...
...CHARGE that Ignatiev is "impress[ing] his beliefs on all others, we find it difficult to accept that voicing objection is tantamount to engaging in attempts at mind control--that beginning a debate is little more than brainwashing...