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...immediate extension of NATO membership to the countries of Central Europe on the grounds that "We've got time. If it's really 'Weimar Russia,' then we're only at 1932. NATO can enlarge when the threat gets real." The quotation incompletely expresses my views. The democracies did not resist Hitler in the 1930s until it was too late to avoid a terrible war. But a better indicator of how the West would respond to the kind of Russian misconduct that would justify the expansion of NATO is the experience of the cold war. Having learned the lesson...
...LEAVING ON ANOTHER risky mission to China last month, human-rights activist Harry Wu offered Sue Howell, the assistant who was accompanying him, some advice on how to survive a Chinese interrogation. "Play it like a game," he said. "They insist you give them something. You resist, then give a little. But you get in trouble if you give everything at once or if you refuse to cooperate." Wu must now follow his own counsel, since the Chinese arrested him on that trip. But his words might also be useful to the U.S., whose relations with China seem to worsen...
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who would be the oldest president ever to assume the office if elected next year, has launched a pre-emptive strike on younger rivals who just can't resist sniping at his age. The GOP frontrunner's campaign has released a medical report that says he's in excellent shape for a man who will turn 72 Saturday -- with clear lungs and a normal heart and pulse, with good blood pressure and cholesterol kept in a normal range by medication. But is that enough? "Dole and his campaign are trying to be aggressive and proactive...
...polished, in fact. Cartwright's characters have more than one dimension, and his view of a culturally debased world is properly droll. But he can't resist tarting up his tale with a bit of porn and pretense. He gravely quotes Elie Wiesel on how Auschwitz negates any attempt to fictionalize it, and then includes fictional scenes of the Holocaust. And did Cartwright really have to call his journalist hero Curtiz, which sounds like Joseph Conrad's Kurtz? Can't anybody write about Africa without invoking Heart of Darkness...
Stone, who is co-chair of the $2.1 billion University Campaign, could not resist acting the part and pointed out that though the University's endowment is the largest in the nation, it ranks seventh per student...