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After clerking for a federal Court of Appeals Justice and spending two years in the Solicitor General's office, Reich moved on to the FTC where he concentrated on protectionism, parallel pricing, and industry trade practices. It was there that he formulated the ideas that have become Campaign '84 required reading and could be a major part of the Democratic platform. He calls his FTC tenure "an extremely important experience," but in order to write. "I needed time to think and the Kennedy School couldn't be a better environment to work...
...Cambridge to deliver the Atherton lecture, the historian suggested a second reason for her runaway success--an explanation which reveals another dimension to Tuchman's histories, as well as the evolution her work has undergone. That explanation is her use of history as a "distant mirror"--a historic parallel of 20-th century problems...
...perhaps in her most recent history, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, that Tuchman's parallel is most explicit. "The Bomb is very much a factor in everyone's mind," she says, "and I wanted to find out what was the effect on society of a massive destructive force." Tuchman had originally intended to focus the book on the Black Death," the most lethal disaster in recorded history" which ---between 1308 and 1350--killed an estimated one-third of the population living between India and Ireland. The book eventually expanded to cover the entire century, a period when "assumptions...
...parallel negotiations on INF, Carter or anyone else would have faced an even greater problem. (The talks, then under the label of Long-Range Theater Nuclear Forces, began in October 1980, just before the U.S. presidential election.) The U.S. took the firm view that the only weapons in Western Europe eligible for limitation were American ones, not those of Great Britain and France, and there was considerable doubt that the American ones in question would ever make it from test ranges in the U.S. to deployment sites in Europe. In accordance with its so-called two-track decision...
...that happened, however, policymakers in the U.S. and China still share compelling parallel interests vis-á-vis the Soviet Union. Both countries seek to ensure that Moscow does not completely dominate the Eurasian land mass. China's primary national security problem, at least for the foreseeable future, will continue to be its long border with the Soviet Union. Still, as last week's events made clear, national security is not the only issue about which the Chinese feel very strongly...