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...does Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph Nye go ballistic when students parrot his ideas about "hard and soft power," "the realist paradigm" or "the myth of decline" in their papers? I doubt it. I'll bet he's glad they were paying attention. Does Voltaire spin in his grave every time a Crimson editorial follows his "I do not agree with what you say, but I would defend to the death your right to say it" reasoning? I don't think Voltaire reads The Crimson. I'd bet even the poet who penned the camel ode would be willing...
Syria's President was the linchpin for the peace process and the toughest Arab leader for Washington to persuade. He is also, says William Quandt of the Brookings Institution, "a great realist." When the cold war ended and the Soviet Union fell into disarray, Assad could no longer count on modern weapons and economic support from Moscow, and his dreams of achieving strategic parity with Israel faded...
...then came the ice of Stalinism, the crushing of the cultural avant- garde. Malevich retracted; he went back to painting cutouts of peasants in the field; his last picture, from 1933, is a realist self-portrait in which the primary colors of Suprematism are shifted into the panels of the costume he wears. He looks like Christopher Columbus, as well he might...
Above all, Weisbrod is a realist. Because he has been injured, he said he realizes "I'm losing my bargaining position." He did not have the 50-point year he had hoped to have, and must now prove himself once again to scouts in training camp this coming August...
...were received in the White House by the President. Also present were Baker, Scowcroft, head of the White House staff John Sununu, and other close aides of the President. Bush asked whether it was really possible to interpret Saddam's contention that he was a "realist" as a sign of his readiness to get out of Kuwait. The President displayed a keen interest in the psychological characteristics of Saddam and in the history of my relations with him. Bush asked many specific questions, and he took notes. It was obvious that some of my observations and judgments did not coincide...