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...ascension of Clinton gives older baby boomers a psychological gift that some of them will be loath to accept -- irrefutable proof that they are mature adults. Like the Doonesbury character Zonker Harris, baby boomers have been indulging in the longest adolescence since Archie and Veronica. True, parenthood has tamed many of their rebellious impulses. But the full awareness of the fleetingness of youth -- even with Stairmasters and cosmetic surgery -- was postponed as long as the World War II generation walked the corridors of power. "Instead of being able to feel like we're still kids and having to look...
...defense workers. They have no reason to trust that their jobs would survive if the warm, nourishing flow of federal dollars were cut off, cold turkey. That would be the "free market" solution, which has already cost 300,000 defense workers their jobs since 1989. Weapons firms are notoriously loath to beat their swords into plowshares: Why brave the rigors of the market if you've been suckled on cost-plus contracts? It's easier to mail out the pink slips...
...sanctity-of-boundaries standard that Third World members held dear. Idi Amin's Uganda, Pol Pot's Cambodia and other killing fields piled up bones unchecked in large part because the carnage was performed within sovereign borders. Many developing countries were disturbed by these atrocities, but they remained loath to compromise the U.N. Charter's criterion for use of outside force; the days of "intervention" by Western colonial empires were too recent. Beyond that, some U.N. members did not bear much scrutiny when it came to internal violence. While condemning bloodshed in Soweto, for example, Syria freely bombarded insurgents...
...More important, it's not clear that the president believes change is necessary. When he speaks of change, he usually means pushing domestic policy farther right. But he has not Shown the political will to do that in the last three and a half years, and he is understandably loath to criticize his own decisions...
...priorities dramatically. He used to emphasize deficit reduction and tax breaks for the middle class, but now considers "investment" the key to economic growth. Unfortunately, since everything he does and says should be geared toward repressing the conclusion that he is too slick for high office, Clinton is still loath to confess the change. He continues to deny the obvious; his advocacy of a middle-class tax-rate cut was a sop to New Hampshire's strapped primary voters, and his scaling back of that promise today merely confirms a new and more sober political and economic stance...