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...maybe Dole knew, maybe the polls and the consultants persuaded him, that this was too bitter a message to offer unsweetened. The children had become too spoiled to listen. That fact turned his speech, and the $74 million campaign that is about to unfold, into a study in paradox. In Verse 32, he told voters they had been insulted four years ago when they were told that material wealth was the only thing that mattered, as in "the economy, stupid." But by Verse 43, Dole was putting money on the table himself. If necessary, this father will pay his children...
Part of the G.O.P. dilemma is the paradox of answered prayers. The interests of blue-collar workers and Christian moralists, the two groups that have flocked to the party since the '60s, don't always square with the interests of its third and most enduring constituency, freewheeling capitalists. Free enterprise is a powerful and munificent system that also has a way of eliminating jobs and stifling pay raises while contriving new threats to the moral order, from cyberporn to Courtney Love. And so the moralists and low-wage earners who are now part of the coalition sometimes see a role...
British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind is fond of comparing the conflict over security to the "Chicken or the Egg" paradox. For Netanyahu, though, there is simply no disputing whether peace or security must come first. Netanyahu makes the compelling argument that the only peace that can ever be honored, the only "just and lasting peace" or "peace of the brave" is a peace that is premised first and foremost on security. If the previous government's philosophy was "peace is our only security," Netanyahu can be relied upon to demonstrate that Israeli hopes for peace depend upon security first...
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...Girotto '96 for "How School Policies Can Affect Cognitive Skills: An Econometric Analysis of the Effects of Student Choices"; Aaron P. Goldberg '96 for "Naturalism and the Problem of Phenomenal Consciousness"; and Elissa L. Gootman '96 for "Dialogue and its Discontents: Israeli and Palestinian Ethnonationalism and the 'Therapeutic Paradox...