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...classroom, where doctrine has reigned and dissidence has been risky. Yet in the era of glasnost, talk like this is now allowed in schools all over the country. The stunning change came upon the insistence of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev for rapid reform in the education system. "We pin hopes for the future largely on the work of our schools," he told a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee five months ago. The Soviet people, he said in another speech, must learn history as it really happened (rather than as the party had long told...
...vulnerable to a pre-emptive strike. But when his Cambridge experts delve into such things as "aim points" and "kill ratios" in discussing nuclear strategies, Dukakis has a worrisome tendency to wave away such talk as "abstract theology" about how many warheads can dance on the head of a pin. "Some of the arcane scenarios that we nuclear strategists see, he doesn't believe are reasonable," says his top foreign policy staffer, James Steinberg. "When looking at the calculations a Soviet leader would make, he thinks like a politician rather than a nuclear theorist...
Then there are the developments that are harder to pin down, the Latin flavors and inflections conveyed through all the intricate paths of daily life, in the offerings at table or the bolero curve of a woman's jacket. You can't walk down the street without running into them. On the corner where the / disco used to be, a Latin-beat club; kids hip hop on floors that withstood the bump. For lunch, a burrito. What's that in the salad? It's jicama. (Say hee- ca-ma.) Things that once seemed foreign now seem as American...
...next day in Quincy dining hall I was wearing a pin from the rally. It had a mushroom cloud on it, and Robert Weil ['61], a leading member of Tocsin, came up to me and asked me to come to a meeting. The group didn't sound too collectivistic, so I went...
Charney speculated that Bracey had set the fireon impulse because he put away his large Yalereunion pin, which stated his name, only whilerunning from the scene of the blaze...