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...amazing that the U.S., the most open society in the world, has so far been the safest. But most experts on terrorism agree that America will be the next target. From this point on, caution and a keen sense of awareness should be used. To succumb to fear and panic is not the answer. The terrorists' assumption that taking Americans as hostages humiliates us is sad and ludicrous. The U.S. will never be brought to its knees by terrorists, nor can we be shamed by those who adhere to religious and political fanaticism. Clay E. Ewing Goliad, Texas...
...complained about the speechwriting operation during a private talk with Donald Regan, who conceded that tighter editing was required. Who will do it is the question. Regan has no time and little sensitivity to seek out nuances. There is no other senior aide with both the authority and the keen judgment to wield a blue pencil as effectively as Richard Darman, now Deputy Treasury Secretary, did during the first term...
...trepidation in the country may simply be part of the perpetual up and-down attitude toward technology in general. Drs. Frankenstein and Strangelove are monsters to the Luddite sensibility quite apart from thoughts of a nuclear winter. It may be that after Hiroshima, Americans were no longer so keen on their seemingly infinite capacity to make things work, that the technological success of Hiroshima took the heart out of American can-do self-esteem. (At Los Alamos, a code name for the Bomb was the "gadget.") On this basis, one might work up an elaborate psychological theory explaining the subsequent...
...Catholicism's great competitors and, in many places, its next-door neighbor. Sept. 11 was perhaps the first great issue that the Pope, by then physically weakened, addressed in a less than aggressive manner, and the Vatican sense of urgency regarding Islam's various faces, although as keen as the rest of the world's, remains papally undefined. "It's the 800-lb. gorilla sitting in the room," says a well-placed Vatican source. "It's huge and expanding, has violent elements, so what will be the church's modus operandi confronting this dynamic...
...fans lost interest in the game, the keen intellects of the men in the bleachers became readily apparent...