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Americans have an overactive fascination with outer space. Ask yourself what was more important in the 1960s, Kennedy's assassination or Neil Armstrong's "giant leap...
Still, there are questions raised by the leap from academia to policy-making, despite the successes of figures such as Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
...apotheosis of Heisenberg's theories of uncertainty; to Soros the Speculator it is the land of opportunity. "The worse a situation becomes, the less it takes to turn it around," he observes, adding with the logic of the consummate trader, "the bigger the upside." It is a quantum leap he is prepared to take...
...balmy Adriatic evening, U.S. Navy attack planes leap from the deck of their carrier on tails of flame. As they climb through the gathering darkness, signals from the radar domes and computers of Air Force AWACS planes direct the jets to targets nestled in the forests and pastures of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ahead of them, electronic-warfare jets swoop down to jam any Serbian antiaircraft radar that might still be working...
...into the outdoor pool. When Norman Lear came for dinner, the President wore sneakers and dinner was chicken enchiladas. One night when Arkansas Senator David Pryor was over, he insisted the President go to bed, only to have Clinton try to drag him downstairs to see Steve Martin's Leap of Faith. The Clintons went out with the Gores one evening in leather jackets and jeans to a Virginia bar to hear Jerry Jeff Walker and drink Molsons...