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...loud about it. When Democrats search for an overarching philosophy, they seem too dreamy- eyed. The last time liberals had vision -- the Great Society, the War on Poverty -- things didn't work out so well. Candidates like George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis failed disastrously. Harvard's Robert Reich, author of The Resurgent Liberal, says, "I'm sure there are six liberals left in the country, but even I don't know who they...
...many Europeans the inhuman crimes of the Third Reich are as vivid as yesterday. The very word German can cause a shudder; some are convinced that history could repeat itself. Conor Cruise O'Brien, the Irish academic, has a preposterously anachronistic vision: "In the new, proud, united Germany, the nationalists will proclaim the Fourth Reich. I can see some of the consequences: expulsion of Jews, breaking off of relations with Israel, a military mission to the Palestine Liberation Organization, a statue of Hitler in every town...
...have already been guaranteed by a treaty between Bonn and Warsaw. It was Kohl's lack of sensitivity that upset so many Germans and foreigners. In his effort to retain political support from survivors and families of some 12 million Germans expelled from the eastern regions of the old Reich, Kohl was willing to stoke an international controversy and hand ammunition to foes of unification...
...student member of the panel, Michael Lord '90, took a strong stand against affirmative action. A member of the Harvard Republicans Club, Lord compared the "coercive" program to policies in the Third Reich and South Africa. He alleged that such policies cause a "new ghettoization of America," creating an "us against them" mentality...
...outdone, Wall Street's investment bankers are lining up for their share of the money to be made from the wreckage of the '80s. Observes Robert Reich, professor of political economy and management at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: "Much of the impetus behind the leveraged buyouts was to bust up companies that were frantically put together in the '70s. Many times it was the same investment bankers and lawyers who then proceeded to take them apart in the '80s. In the '90s these same teams will work on reducing debt loads to strengthen core businesses...