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Plays such as Perdition are more than mere lapses of historical memory; they are invitations to crushing bigotry. Von Weizsacker makes clear that the past--even a past as terrible as the one the play distorts--can be the foundation for a hopeful future, one free of such hate. It remains for his countrymen to learn to understand...
...Shortly after his diagnosis, Waters learned that his former teammate Matt Hazeltine, a linebacker, had also been stricken with ALS. Last December Waters heard of a third ALS casualty from the 1964 squad -- Fullback Gary Lewis. Both Hazeltine and Lewis died earlier this winter. Waters was stunned. Was it mere coincidence? The disease typically strikes 1 in 50,000 Americans a year, yet it hit three teammates on a 55-man squad. Waters' doctor, Stanley Appel, head of neurology at Houston's Baylor College of Medicine, was suspicious too. "Statisticians would tell you that there is still a possibility...
...week the Administration decided to wait until September to send its official request to Capitol Hill for $105 million in new assistance, hoping that by then the rebels' military progress would attract more support. Such reasoning could be wishful thinking. Last August, the House approved contra aid by a mere twelve votes. Notes Florida Democrat Dante Fascell, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "A strong President, at the height of his popularity, was just able to drive it through." In the wake of Iranscam, he predicts, "there will be a lot of people saying 'Not this time...
Though his tactics and outlook may seem like the products of mere common sense, Murphy is deserving of special praise for his efforts. It was only a year ago that Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 made a very different kind of trip to South Africa. He traveled there--as the chairman of the University committee with responsibility for spending the fund--with a specific preordained plan in hand for spending part of a $1 million aid fund...
...proposals to eliminate all nuclear weapons by the year 2000 were "dangerous nonsense." Verifying a no-nukes agreement, he insisted, "is not difficult, or very difficult; it is impossible." What Western leader, Perle asked, "would turn in his country's last remaining nuclear weapon on the strength of assurances -- mere words -- that the Soviets had done the same?" Asked about this blunt talk, White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater took a diplomatic out. Perle, he said, "was not speaking for the President...