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...GEORGE BUSH ponders new ways to remind Americans of his two favorite wars, as Pentagon hawks try vainly to parley "successes" into bigger appropriations for high tech weapons, Saddam Hussein remains in power; Kuwait's democratic elite enslaves Filipino servants; Manuel Noriega gets ready for his acquittal; and America's domestic problems go unchecked, too big, too complicated and too politically explosive for the President who brought us Just Cause and Desert Storm to manage...
...INFERENCE is clear. The As go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The Bs go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get As, too, but as Mr. Carswell observed, this takes too long. There...
Most of my friends did not believe that I was going to box. One friend went so far as to remind me that I am a peaceful person who hates pain. No biggie. I signed up, term-billed the Harvard Boxing Club fee and got ready for practice...
Apprehension about the uncertainty that fogs the former U.S.S.R. is not misplaced. At the same time, the world should remind itself that coexistence with a unitary Soviet state for seven decades was not anxiety-free, and that its deconstruction is not necessarily a bad thing. Though Gorbachev insisted that he intended to retain the union and advance freedom, there was no way he could do both. In the face of the republics' passionate rejection of the central government, the Communist Party and Russian domination, Moscow could have held the union together only with armed force...
...bleak words did not go over well among business leaders. Ed Yardeni, a New York City economist, immediately sent out a fax to his clients: "Will someone please remind this guy that he is Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors! Send him some antidepressants. Consumers are frightened enough without hearing all this depressing talk from Mr. Greenspan." Urged Yardeni: "Let's have a full-point cut in the discount rate today!" The message evidently got through. Late in the week Greenspan turned Santa Claus. He lowered the discount rate, which is what banks are charged for borrowing money...