Word: reston
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...William Hyland, editor of Foreign Affairs, wrote a guest column for the New York Times calling on the U.S. to "start selectively disengaging" from overseas commitments, "a psychological turn inward" and a Marshall Plan "to put our house in order." Four weeks later, the Times's own James Reston argued that "the main threat to our nation's security ((comes)) from within" and urged Bush to build a "new American order." Meanwhile, Peter Peterson, chairman of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Institute for International Economics, is advocating "the primacy of the domestic agenda...
...version of this theme is sure to figure in the Democrats' presidential campaign next year. It's a safe bet their candidate won't echo John F. Kennedy's exhortation to "pay any price, bear any burden." Instead, Thomas Jefferson's warning against entangling alliances is back in fashion. Reston endorses John Quincy Adams' injunction to go "not abroad in search of monsters to destroy," while Hyland offers his own version: "The enemy is not at the gate, but it may already be inside...
...fearsome, albeit fading, slugger when he surpassed Ruth in 1974. In contrast, baseball purists should cringe at the way Pete Rose, his skills long vanished, was lionized for his Captain Ahab-like quest to break Ty Cobb's record for career base hits. Collision at Home Plate by James Reston Jr. (HarperCollins; $19.95) is a cautionary tale about the dangers of hero worship. This joint biography of Rose and baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti -- the former Yale University president who banished Rose from baseball in 1989 and then died suddenly little more than a week later -- never quite works. The irony...