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Some negatives have already been identified. One of the reasons Clinton leads in the polls is that Democrats are buying the notion that his centrist policies render him electable against Bush. Now, says Maryland Democratic chairman Nate Landow, "some inside the party are worried about what the Republicans would do to him with this issue in the general election...
...difficulties of making it work are immense. Of all people, Joseph Stalin gave the most eerily prophetic description. When the Soviet Union was founded on Dec. 30, 1922, he enumerated the conditions attending its birth: "devastated fields, factories at standstill, destroyed productive powers and exhausted economic resources render insufficient the separate efforts of separate republics in economic reconstruction." The union is now dying of exactly the same ills, and its heirs have yet to prove that they know how to build something better...
...American culture. The transfusion is substantial: the New York City Poetry Calendar currently lists an average of 15 gatherings each night. In Los Angeles the Poetry Hotline gives updates on readings; meanwhile, celebrities like Joe Spano, who played sensitive Sergeant Henry Goldblume on TV's Hill Street Blues, render their favorite poems in trendy spots like the Chateau Marmont. "Poetry deserves to be heard," he says...
...think it's both. First of all, there are stresses of success. I can have students go through an experimental paradigm in a lab, and they will show cracks under the stress of success. But there are also identifiable developmental influences that render some individuals more susceptible than others to self-sabotage. They are like a virus that lies dormant unless it's given the right environment to flourish. What causes the germ seed of the "healthy" narcissist to explode is really the success beyond which he or she can't comfortably proceed. It creates a level of arrogance...
...this was no nuclear abolitionist, no Jimmy Carter daring to dream about the "elimination of all nuclear weapons from this earth." Nor was it Ronald Reagan, putting his faith in a pure defense that would render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." Instead, it was classic George Bush, a traditionalist and pragmatist, striving for boldness without undermining a quality he values even more: prudence...