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In the State Legislature, meanwhile, the Natural Resources Committee is considering H.R. 6716, a bill "regulating the generation, transportation, storage, treatment and disposal of hazardous wastes." Among other things, the bill promises public hearings in areas marked for potential dumping sites. If state regulations aren't enough, Harvard has Cambridge...
The Kremlin, meanwhile, may be seriously confounded by the entire is sue. A Soviet with considerable experience in American affairs said last week that the furor in the U.S. over the brigade puzzled Soviet leaders and was forcing them to question the "stability and sanity" of the U.S. Government. He...
September 1979 may well go down in diplomatic history as the month that the U.S. Government went a little bit haywire. Both the Executive and Legislative branches have overreacted to the belated discovery of a Soviet combat brigade in Cuba and have severely jeopardized rational consideration of the SALT II...
Fisher, a buddy of State Department heavies, teaches rational and cool-headed policy-making using a series of "tools," which he presents in bi-weekly Socratic lectures. Weekly section meetings reinforce the skills learned in class.
His best books are parables written out of anger at some inexplicable kink in the collective psyche: blind trust in science and scientists (Cat's Cradle); faith in war as a rational activity (Slaughterhouse-Five). After a lengthy period of mellowed-out serenity (and two mediocre novels, Breakfast of...