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...hostage situation," said a Justice official. "Not only were they there, they were willing to do anything for this person." A congressional aide put it differently: "They acted like they thought they were talking to another bank robber. Instead, they were talking to someone who was dealing in a parallel universe...
Many of the problems Clinton perceives today are the same ones that John Kennedy confronted 30 years ago. Clinton doesn't have an expansionist Soviet Union to face, although more than enough tough foreign crises require his careful attention. The real parallel, though, is the economy, which was everything then and is everything now. "What is at stake," Kennedy said, putting matters in their proper perspective at Yale in 1962, "is not some grand warfare of rival ideologies which will sweep the country with passion but the practical management of a modern economy. What we need is not ((party)) labels...
Yeltsin at first said he would challenge the 50% rule but later decided against conducting a parallel referendum with more favorable questions. Meanwhile, Vyacheslav Kostikov, spokesman for Yeltsin, warned that Congress might try yet again to impeach Yeltsin before the referendum...
...Edward White's article on affirmative action (March 17) grounds its criticism on a fundamentally flawed conception of what affirmative action truly represents. By describing both the purported inflation of minority students' grades and the affirmative action program as the results of benevolent white patronizing. White draws an unfair parallel, which distorts the true nature and goals of affirmative action in college admissions...
...Harvard's recruiting would not have a diastrous effect on sports if all the Ivy League schools took parallel action. With the elimination of Big Ten tactics from Harvard sports, athletes could practice, win, and enjoy themselves while fulfilling a balanced academic and social curriculum. The University should throw ego aside and investigate this financially friendly proposition...