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...like a pumpkin on his stocky frame. He lacks conventional star magnetism: the athletic abandon, the flaming sexuality, the audacity of interpretation that risks derision to achieve greatness. Expect no swooning teenagers to queue at his stage door, no desperate fan to write him suicide notes. Anyway, he would reject that form of hero worship, for his personality radiates shopkeeper common sense. He is a model of Thatcherite initiative in a British arts scene of radical distemper...
...Your own life is your highest value [under Objectivism]--the value that sets the standard for morality," said Harry Binswanger, editor of The Ayn Rand Lexicon. "Man is not his brother's keeper. We reject the idea that someone else's need gives him the claim to your money, service or life...
...lament the absence of any progressive candidate who has the courage to reject the knee-jerk pro-rent control position and take a critical look at the inequities and inefficiencies of the current system. We believe that a truly progressive candidate would push for a more efficient and fair system for ensuring an adequate supply of affordable housing for the needy. We would like to see a progressive candidate who did not blindly defend a scheme that benefits rich free-loaders and pushes the costs of the system free ride onto those who cannot get rent-controlled housing...
...alliance declaration in July forbade the use of pact troops in the affairs of member nations. Still, Poland plans to push for further bilateral assurances. The Soviets are pressing NATO for a mutual phasing out of the Eastern and Western military alliances, but Moscow is certain to reject individual initiatives by pact members. As Soviet spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said last week, "We may witness a change of government in Warsaw or Budapest, but international obligations do not necessarily go away with a change of government...
Other, more radical activists of the Pan-Africanist Congress, which is also banned, reject talks altogether. Jafta Masemola, a P.A.C. leader released with Sisulu, said, "We cannot negotiate with the usurpers of our land." While most black leaders agree that De Klerk has set off in a new direction, they remain skeptical because of the destination he has in mind. De Klerk's policy, fully endorsed by the ruling National Party, is one of constitutionally guaranteed "group rights" defined by race, including the right of whites to veto legislation they might consider threatening, to live in whites-only neighborhoods...