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...Justice Department, Ginsburg urged governmental agencies to adopt "pro-competitive solutions" to regulatory problems, he explained, adding. "The basic precept is that government regulations be cost-justified...
Normally, wars are not won by dying for one's country. They are won by making the enemy die for his. Unfortunately, holy wars are not waged under this harsh but rational precept. Today many religious zealots seem almost eager to die for their cause in suicidal truck bombings and other terroristic attacks. President Reagan said two weeks ago that there were as many as 1,000 kamikaze terrorists being trained in Iran alone. Such individual fanaticism has now been coupled with something new: the technical resources and diplomatic protections of governments like Iran's and Syria...
What Vaillant calls the "natural healing processes" that relieve suffering and create hope are best fostered today, he believes, by Alcoholics Anonymous. He argues that the first step to sobriety is an acceptance of the first precept of A.A.: "I am powerless over alcohol." Says Vaillant: "A.A. is the most effective means of treating alcoholism, and it worked for sophisticated, Harvard-educated loners as well as for gregarious blue-collar workers...
...that impulsive purchase is worth celebrating. For in the intervening years, Stieglitz did more than anyone else to elevate photography from a curiosity or hobby to a respectable member of the visual arts. He did so both by example (his pictures were instantly recognized as transcendent) and by precept (he lectured, hectored and lobbied constantly on behalf of his crusade for the camera). He also established and ran galleries and magazines, and took up the task of forcing fellow Americans to look at 20th century art and like...
...short, George Shultz has been quietly taking charge. "That is not my precept," he protested in an interview with TIME last week. "My precept is that the President is in charge." But Shultz has been far more than just a loyal lieutenant. His eight years as a top executive of Bechtel Group Inc., an engineering and construction firm with extensive activities abroad, make him the only high Administration official with expertise in international affairs. Shultz has acted as a teacher, moderator and molder of important positions. Says one official who has been working with him: "He has a subtle, effective...