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But the end of the Soviet threat does not mean the end of nuclear danger. The real danger is proliferation, and proliferation has just begun. Within a decade, according to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, 15 countries will acquire ballistic missiles. About half will have nuclear weapons on top of them...
Time Warner executives are restricted from publicly discussing details of the deal until it is approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission. But Wall Streeters who heard the sales pitch said company officials contended that investors would get a good deal. In return for putting up cash, maintains Time Warner...
The man who does not believe in the existence of evil knows all about the horrors of the world. He knows that humanity is often vicious, violent, corrupt, atrocious. And that nature's cruelties and caprices are beyond rational accounting: Bangladesh does not deserve the curse that seems to hover...
It's true that powerful images are not equivalent to rational discourse. Tough. No one ever said that democracies would make purely rational decisions. That's part of the price of granting sovereignty to the unwashed masses. Anyway, are there purely rational answers to these highly emotional public policy questions...
Is "The West as America" free from this? By no means. Its tone is prosecutorial, and often unfairly so. The walls are laden with tendentious "educational" labels, seemingly aimed at 14-year-olds. The catalog essays are mostly better than this, but not always. Thus Julie Schimmel, writing of Charles...