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Carter appointed himself to a new historical position--which he made up as he went along--as America's anti-President: a psalm-singing global circuit rider and moral interventionist who behaved, in a surreal and often effective way, as if the election of 1980 had been only some kind of ghastly mistake, a technicality of democratic punctilio. And so, for nearly 20 years, Anti-President Carter has circled the world embodying hyperactive paradox: insufferable self-absorption and self-righteousness in the service of admirably selfless causes...
What has Goliath so worried? Some of Lessig's past writings could be interpreted to suggest he might have an interventionist bent. But those who know him say Lessig is not so easily pigeonholed. For example, Lessig lost a lot of friends in the computer community when he argued against their push to establish a software standard for filtering pornographic images. Such software, he argued, limits the speech of its users without their even knowing it--a result nearly as pernicious as direct government censorship. It was an interesting insight, and many legal scholars were looking forward to hearing what...
...impatient should consider this: Dayton is starting to work. And Clinton deserves credit. Reporting from the region, TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer says that over the last five months the U.S. has dragged NATO from its passive role into a boldly interventionist one -- arresting war criminals, removing obstructionist police chiefs, and paralyzing hostile TV networks. The results are happy: refugees have at last started returning to their homes, and peace-minded politicians on all three sides have begun to emerge. Meanwhile, the U.S. is still without a combat casualty...
...that federal interference would stifle the high-tech industry's fabled spirit of innovation at the behest of a bunch of whining marketplace losers. A consulting outfit called the Strategic Alliance Group devised a clumsy plan to buff Microsoft's image by wooing consumer groups away from Nader's interventionist cabal, lobbying the six state attorneys general now looking into Microsoft and recruiting public officials deemed potentially sympathetic. "We could readily enlist [Wisconsin Governor] Tommy Thompson and others in a pro-Microsoft effort," says a memo leaked from the group...
...about affiliating with the Pathfinder Website). His recent appearances on PBS stations around the country drew record audiences; his audio CD of music and meditations is selling briskly. He is, by any measure, the man of the moment in America's eternal search for an alternative to the conventional, interventionist, pharmaceutical medicine most of us grew up thinking of as the only medicine there...