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Even with the purest motives, the media have been led astray by an irreconcilable variety of expert opinion. Stories based on Air Force sources have tended to be more upbeat about what air strikes alone could accomplish; stories based on Army sources have naturally tended to emphasize the importance of ground troops. From mid-August to mid-January, best-case scenarios abounded of a two-week air war, with U.S. dead no more than a few hundred. They were offered by White House, Pentagon and Congressional officials, who sought to buoy public support yet not make it so contingent...
...confronting in the first course in the U.S. designed specifically to train urban superintendents. No conceptual brainteaser here, to be discussed over Brie and Chablis. This grisly event actually happened earlier this year, and it helps explain why the big-city superintendent's job is one of the purest forms of crisis management this side of the Oval Office, and one of the most discouraging. "Within the ground rules of the system, it's just about impossible to succeed today at that job," concludes Chester Finn, director of the Educational Excellence Network, which tracks educational issues...
Comparisons of Saddam Hussein to Hitler may be overblown. The Iraqi dictator has not built a Middle Eastern Auschwitz -- yet. But Saddam does seem to share one Hitlerian trait identified by British historian Alan Bullock: he is "consumed ((by)) the will to power in its crudest and purest form . . . power and domination for its own sake," to be expanded without limit. If Saddam is allowed to keep part of Kuwait -- and make no mistake, that is what those advocating a "diplomatic solution" are hinting at -- he will be back to take a bite out of another victim. Not right away...
...budget battle, a bloody, ugly brawl that left no winners and many scars. All the boasts about statesmanship and responsibility could not hide the fact that few hard decisions were made by either the White House or the Congress. Even the handful of officials with the best intentions and purest hearts could not find a way to make policy out of principle. And even if they had, there is no certainty that voters would have rewarded them for their courage...
...pressure on Harvard's administration, if applied indiscriminately, can have damaging side effects as well. Bell's ultimatum raises the specter of tokenism in its purest form. Is the hiring of one Black woman proof of a true commitment to faculty diversity? And if Harvard does hire a Black woman to assuage Bell, will she only be known as The Black Woman on The Faculty? Will her role as a scholar be undermined by suspicion about why she was hired...