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To persuade people of the need to effect compromise, to restore the belief in consensus, not only inspiration will be needed but, perhaps more important, a very old political skill. Harry Truman spoke of it when he said: "You know what makes leadership? It is the ability to get men...
"Several rulers," he wrote, "have sought to cure the state and restore it to normal health. They think this decay is the result of incapacity or negligence in their predecessors. They are wrong. These accidents are inherent in empires and cannot be cured."
The going literary view, by contrast, is that Solzhenitsyn's fame depends on politics more than art, that he is a great man, but not a great writer. That is probably a shortsighted judgment. In America it will be necessary to wait for first-rate translations of his books...
The winner of the Cup will hold unchallenged ranking as the planet's best soccer team. In a sport that is actively played by 16 million people on 600,000 teams in 141 countries-six more than belong to the U.N.-that is no minor claim. Indeed, a large...
No profession has suffered a more painful drop in public esteem than accounting; in recent years accountants have been regularly criticized for failing to expose corporate shenanigans, and have been sued for allegedly certifying misleading company earnings reports. Four SEC complaints have been filed against Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., onetime...