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...meantime, the Bonn-Moscow accord in all likelihood will lead to a European security conference, which the Soviets wish to convene-possibly in Helsinki-as a means of gaining full international endorsement of the status quo in Europe. In such a conference, which would be attended by the U.S. and Canada as well as all European countries, the participants would pledge to respect each other's boundaries; they would also discuss a mutual reduction of forces between NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations. The security conference would be, in fact, an updated version of the 19th century Congress...
...Every few years, however, some uppity editorialists take it upon themselves to challenge the status quo. How productive is it, they ask, to stubbornly ensure that every minority—visible or otherwise—has an insular campus organization all its own, safely cordoned off from the rest of the student body? A brief campus-wide comic opera ensues, as the officers of the maligned cultural groups write angry letters expressing their collective disappointment at their peers’ lack of sensitivity. The matter is hotly debated on email lists for a few days, until the dozen...
...explain this week in TIME, Hurricane Katrina was a manmade disaster, attributable almost entirely to the Corps. It should have been a teachable moment. But in Congress there's still rabid bipartisan support for the status quo - as long as all 535 members can bring home their pet water projects. President Bush has not usually distinguished himself as a tightwad, but when it comes to the Corps - an agency he doesn't control as much as he'd like - his budgets have been consistently stingy...
...most significant measures forces lawmakers to report all lobbyist-bundled contributions that total more than $15,000 every six months. While it is an admittedly weaker standard than a former draft, which would have placed the threshold at a mere $5,000, it's more than the status quo, which presently does not require any bundling disclosure...
...providing the central rationale for maintaining close ties with what is, after all, an unapologetically authoritarian regime. But China's Me generation could shatter such long-held assumptions. As the chief beneficiaries of China's economic success, young professionals have more and more tied up in preserving the status quo. The last thing they want is a populist politician winning over the country's hundreds of millions of have-nots on a rural-reform, stick-it-to-the-cities agenda...