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...just think that somehow, something's gone awry in our genetic destiny. This sounds sort of Nietzschian, I think. But somehow, the genetic mastermind behind our evolution is allowing too many congenital morons to get through. Andalso, I think it's very important for people tojust be in better shape. I think it's disgustingto see, especially among writers andintellectuals. They're a bunch of little mice...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: News Books | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

President George Bush indicated that he had already learned at least half the lesson. His decision to send Secretary of Transportation Andrew Card to Florida to mastermind relief efforts suggested that even he didn't think FEMA was up to the job. Florida's senior Senator urges a rethinking of military involvement. "In the post-cold war era, this could be an important new function for the military," says Democrat Bob Graham, "not something done after hours, but as an ongoing significant part of the military task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catastrophe 101 | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

...considering the timing rather than the substance of negative charges, Clinton revealed his essence. Beyond being both the candidate and his campaign's top policy analyst, Clinton is also chief strategist and tactician, the nuts-and-bolts mastermind of his own race for the presidency, an office he has been preparing to occupy for "at least 10 years," largely by learning from the losses of Democratic wannabes. So while luck has played a role -- Clinton's competitors have yet to catch on, heavy hitters like Jesse Jackson and Mario Cuomo chose not to run, and the end of the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: The Self-Making of a Front Runner | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

...undisciplined attacks suggested that Cedras, initially considered the coup leader, did not control the army. As events unfolded, it became clear that Major Michel Francois, 34, head of the police force in Haiti's capital, was the mastermind of the coup and the driving force behind the violence that has now claimed 300 lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Shifting on Aristide? | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...Democrats, for their part, lose in two ways. They have been forced to the sidelines as Bush keeps the focus on foreign policy, reminding voters that the mastermind of Desert Storm is again at the helm. And Bush has taken a step toward defusing the one issue they have put forward on the eve of the 1992 campaign: he would rather spend money solving foreign problems than domestic ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Thou Shalt Not Build | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

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