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...treatment had been given. To accept the need for rationing involves a certain pessimism -- the embracing of a zero-sum system where the only way to pay for one thing is to drop another. The pragmatic wonk in Clinton might want to wrestle with it; but the optimist in him, and his political instincts, will ensure that he will try to to keep it from becoming a focus of debate. He will probably succeed in this, since his plan is designed in such a way that any rationing that goes on will happen far from the White House. The odds...
...Side 2, the man ponders continuity and eternity. As a husband, he sings All About Soul -- soul as primal music, as warm love, as a wisp of immortal spirit. As a father, he sings a lovely, McCartneyesque Lullabye that sounds like a dying man's goodbye. As an optimist, he prays that "we're on the verge of all things new" after Two Thousand Years. Both songs trust in children and art as the "vintage" of the next millennium...
...they wouldn't come back to court was pretty radical -- especially for a prosecutor," notes John Goldkamp, a Temple University criminal-justice professor who has been studying the drug court. "She has launched a mini-movement in the courts across the United States." But Reno is no dewy-eyed optimist about such tactics. Goldkamp recalls an early meeting: "Reno said she was skeptical of fairy tales about the miraculous efficacy of the program on public safety, but she said if it delayed seeing drug addicts again in court, that was a real contribution...
Affirmation means denial. (Thus, for example, Magic Johnson approaches his life-threatening disease with optimism and good nature. This means he is "in denial." An optimist is only a pessimist who hasn't yet come out. Yes, in short, means no. This is different, however, from the fact that no means yes. That is what men say when women don't say yes to them...
...them with the "financial rand," which sells at a discount, but get your interest in "commercial rands," which do not. There are risks, such as a collapse in the value of the rand or nationalization of private businesses and repudiation of their debt. But I'm an optimist. Most U.S. brokers won't take orders for South African investments. (One that will, in amounts of $25,000 or more: Noyes Partners, in New York City.) Personally, I see little moral harm in buying them. But to hedge my bet, I donate the interest to a worthy outfit called Medical Education...