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How did it happen? Dole, goodness knows, represents no strong ideological position. He has no large popular following. He has no natural campaign skills that cry out to be exploited. Although an admirable person in many ways, Dole is not, in short, the end point of any rational selection process...
That sentiment is more a feeble wish than a rational expectation. In Washington the State Department maintains, publicly at least, that Yeltsin is firmly in charge and overseeing the latest game of Kremlin musical chairs with some skill. In Moscow, however, his frequent disappearances reinforce the perception that the country...
Media hype is ahistorical. Intimate electronic magnification causes the present vividness and trauma to override memory and the rational sense of historical proportion. We have all lived with the media effect for a long time and have made our inner adjustments to it. The trouble is that the left brain...
"People are more motivated by issues in politics than by a more detached, rational view of the constitution and civil rights," McLachlan says. "There is nothing sexy about civil rights."
Raines led the "moderate" students' cause, organizing meetings for students and making recommendations to the faculty--offering a voice that was reasonable, rational and respectable.