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Clark's claims that he is suddenly interested in tolerating CLS viewpoints remind us of a very dirty campaigner's pledge to create a kinder, gentler nation. Rhetoric cannot hide the past. Clark's classroom antics and his qualifications as a corporate law expert should not obscure the fact that he was the wrong choice at the wrong time for the law school...
...Remind me not to come down here if we're undefeated again," Cleary said...
...rebel offensive is timed to remind voters that the F.M.L.N. remains a force to be reckoned with. The election of moderate President Jose Napoleon Duarte in 1984 seemed to promise an end to the grueling war. But failed talks with the rebels and charges of official corruption have dissipated the popularity of Duarte's Christian Democratic Party. ARENA has strongly rebounded and seems likely to corner the votes this time. But many observers foresee a runoff for the presidency between ARENA's Alfredo Cristiani and the Christian Democratic candidate Fidel Chavez Mena...
Every four years Americans remind themselves that, as Reagan loved to say (Tom Paine too), "We have it in our power to start the world over again." Reagan was exaggerating, as usual. But, as usual, he was on to something: capitalism's genius for what Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction," the often painful process by which old structures and techniques are destroyed and then renewed by the dynamism of capitalism. The resulting suppleness and adaptability is capitalism's greatest source of strength...
...remind myself of the old man. Myself and I, as it happens, are having a dialogue, somewhat testy, thoroughly familiar. It is 7:35 on a chilly morning in late fall, and I am swinging an 8-lb. splitting maul, breaking up oak and birch trunks. Myself is feeling sorry for himself. Our back is stiff from yesterday's firewood fun. Our right wrist, broken years ago in a skiing accident, signals that it is time to stop. Middle-aged men drag themselves through life like wounded bears, it occurs...