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...engaged as anyone else at the company. After 8 on most nights, after even the diehards have cleared out of the office, Grove's cubicle still glows against the window. Rock, who has known Grove for 30 years, puts the persistent passion down to a calm inner knowledge. "Andy has been exactly the same person. He hasn't changed. That's the beauty of it. He has no airs." That Grove could remain still in the midst of such a turbulent business is perhaps the best explanation of his success. Other companies chased fads or indulged their arrogance. Grove remained...
...surprisingly, therefore, President Clinton, whose political genius lies in his capacity for expressing, indeed embodying, the zeitgeist of the moment, has seized upon catharsis as his special contribution to dealing with America's racial agonies. Rather than undertaking, say, some vast, expensive and real program to improve inner-city schools, he has called for a "national conversation on race...
...problem is not inhibition. It is exhibition. What the President and the polity and the pedagogues should be preaching is racial decency. Respect. Restraint. Manners. The lesson ought to be: Whatever your innermost feelings--and we have no idea, despite the claims of pop psychology, how to change inner feelings--we demand certain behavior. That is what the civil rights laws are about. They do not mandate a pure society. They mandate right conduct amid impurity...
...done in the name of his philosophy (a prominent lama was slapped with a $10 million sexual-harassment suit in California). And his wish to make peace among the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism has so infuriated a few that earlier this year three members of his inner circle were found murdered in their beds, apparently by a breakaway sect...
...organization has long been fabricating intelligence reports that have led the Mossad to take a hawkish view of Syria's military intentions and capabilities. The agent, who is under investigation, claimed he based his reports on the information of a key source, a non-Arab closely tied to the inner circle in Damascus. Israeli officials now say the agent, briefly a right-wing political activist, was making up much of what he reported. They also say the agent pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars, which were to be paid to his source...