Word: mindedness
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The combatants in this latest version of the West's long tug-of-war over water are more numerous and clamorous than ever. The four Upper Basin states have always regarded the three in the Lower Basin with a gimlet eye. The upper states have never used all the water...
Or they'll talk to this curious listener. Toujours Provence contains an intricate aria of shoptalk from an expert truffle hunter who has even filmed his pig at work, "its snout moving rhythmically back and forth, ears flopping over its eyes, a single-minded earth-moving machine." A similar cameo...
Presidential politics has grown so dispiriting that most Americans are inured to the impossibility of change. The op-ed pages and opinion magazines have long been littered with high-minded reform proposals, but every four years the system repeats itself, a little more cynically manipulative than the time before.
Will the last reformer left in the Soviet Communist Party be the man officially running it? Many of Mikhail Gorbachev's onetime allies have already turned in their party cards, and formation last week of the Democratic Reform Movement may turn the stream into a flood. Democratic-minded Communists who...
Given the muddled situation in Yugoslavia, it was not surprising that Western officials on both sides of the Atlantic were having trouble finding a comfortable political stance. When violence first erupted, the international community called for the preservation of "territorial integrity" warned separatists that a violent breakaway would receive neither...