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With Giardi on the sideline, Restic had to look to his bench, a prospect he did not relish...
...Soviet Jews happy at the prospect of foundering in another bureaucratized, militarized, socialistic economy. They don't just need places to live -- they need meaningful, productive jobs. Even if they bring nothing but what they can carry in two suitcases, they are rich in education, skill and ambition. Already there are enough doctors for a clinic on every corner, enough musicians for a string quartet in every apartment building and enough engineers and computer programmers for a booming, high-tech, export-oriented manufacturing sector on the order of Taiwan's or Singapore...
Bush calculates, no doubt correctly, that Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin are every bit as frightened of that prospect as he is, especially in the wake of the aborted coup in August...
...promising edge: its contention that the world has changed so fundamentally that military expenditures should be redirected to home-front priorities. In the short term -- and perhaps for as long as a decade or more -- Bush's plan might actually inflate defense spending. Nevertheless, as a political matter, the prospect of moving toward a de-nuked world is probably something most people would gladly pay for, and it seems reasonable to assume that a peace dividend will eventually be realized. In any event, none of those who would replace Bush have the stature to credibly challenge the course...
EVERY DAY AT HARVARD, the future leaders of this country's communities take classes together, share rooms together, sit across from one another in the dining hall. Cooped up in the ivory tower, we are not forced to confront the real-life dilemmas of communities in conflict. The prospect of the events of Crown Heights being transferred to Harvard Yard is unimaginable...