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...Third World remains mute on Poland. The Catholic Church sidesteps the repression and detention with vague symbolic rhetoric. Europe dares not speak for fear of offending the Soviets. Napoleon was correct when he declared that morality belongs to the country with the largest artillery...
...economic consequences of immediate majority rule would be especially dire for South Africa, the most industrialized nation on the continent. Very few Blacks have had access to the education required of industry managers or government administrators. The poverty of now-independent colonies is mute testimony to this point: Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Zaire and Angola are among the poorest countries in the world, and many are debt-ridden or bankrupt. As soon as these states became independent, productivity plummeted and industry rumbled to a halt...
...Jack Reardon, who runs the arena, has already unchained the doors for her and then disappeared. She's alone in the cavernous arena to practice figure-skating routines, and it's nice to click on the Panasonic and step onto the ice, performing to the undivided attention of 2000 mute chairs while sound waves glide across the ice and reverberate off the wooden rafters high above...
...there is a corporate board member or main street merchant who still believes that Reagan's original concept of how to treat the economy can achieve the results desired, he wisely remains mute...
...forceful yet delicate style. Nearly every paragraph is quotable. Though his highly-publicized condemnation of the Moral Majority does not appear in this book (it doubtless will in his next), and though he is more concerned with the civic than the social dimension of education. Giamatti does not stay mute on contemporary problems. In "Power, Politics and a Sense of History"--a remarkably presumptuous title for a 4000-word essay--he declares...