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...leaders are at odds with U.S. policy on a number of fronts. They angrily blame their economic problems on what they see as the Reagan Administration's failure to bring down world interest rates and on a stubborn protectionist streak in U.S. trade policy. In addition, the Europeans object to seeming inconsistencies in American policy-like refusing to impose a grain embargo on the Soviets while simultaneously demanding sacrifices from the Europeans. Strained by a bewildering array of tensions, including disruptive left-wing demonstrations over nuclear disarmament and U.S. policy in El Salvador, the Western Alliance is in greater...
...Freedom is not the chief and continual object of their desires, it is equality for which [Americans] feel an eternal love, they rush on freedom with quick and sudden impulses, but if they miss their mark, they resign themselves to their disappointment; but nothing will satisfy them without equality, and they would rather die than lose it." Tocqueville, Democracy in America...
...started, as many important things do in Washington, as cocktail-party chatter. At a museum reception in 1978, Representative Sidney Yates good-naturedly challenged Paul Perrot, an assistant secretary at the Smithsonian, to prove that he could produce every object listed in the records. Yates, an Illinois Democrat whose subcommittee oversees Smithsonian funding, was curious about how many items had been lost or stolen over the years...
...political clout, or the dignity, of people they show (dignity in hockey?). They are freer to rearrange reality. Roone Arledge invented prime-time Olympics-singling out anticipated stars to build up in advance, juggling tapes, and the clock to show the most dramatic events at peak hours. Purists may object that Arledge's rewed-up Olympics test like the sprawly Olympics of actuality, but the test is the same as for orange-juice concentrate: more people seem to prefer it to the real thing...
Student leaders expect a response to their proposal from the Faculty representatives by early next week and said that the haven committee's opinion will indicate whether professors object to guaranteed minority representation in principle or only in the complex way it was originally suggested...