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After a year of dazzling freshman acolytes with his big thoughts and frustrating Democrats with his discipline, last week the House Speaker seemed to revert to the bomb-throwing, publicity-starved backbencher he was in the 1980s. On Tuesday night, with a partial government shutdown at hand and his deficit-reduction plan heading for a Presidential veto, he charged onto the virtually empty House floor to rant about the budget before C-SPAN cameras and a handful of junior members. The next morning, he whined to reporters that his stubbornness on the budget was partly inspired by an indignity...
Territory. The thorniest issue of all--and an area where remarkable progress has been made. The first break came when Tudjman and Milosevic agreed that control over Eastern Slavonia, the sliver of Croatia ruled by rebel Serbs since 1991, would revert to Zagreb's control in a year or, under certain conditions, two. That was followed by a compromise on the cornerstone issue: Sarajevo. It will remain, at least in name, an "undivided city'' (as the Muslims demand), but it will be partitioned into nine self-governing ethnic zones. Each zone can have its own official language, its own education...
...that voters are growing leery, even scared, of where Newt Gingrich's revolution may lead. In this environment, says Tom Korologos, a Washington lobbyist and longtime Dole friend, "there may be some room for Bob to be flexible," by which Korologos means that Dole may have "more space" to revert to his truer, less ideological self...
...simple black-and-white issue most Americans could understand. But when it comes to black-on-black oppression like Nigeria's, a kind of moral myopia sets in. The affliction stems partly from the patronizing attitude of many whites, who assume that when blacks rule themselves they will inevitably revert to savagery. But it also reflects the unwillingness of some African-American leaders to hold black-ruled nations to the same standards they demand of everyone else...
...sales figures testify to the genius of marketing moguls, since they have persuaded people to ignore nature's essential nature. Michael Pollan, a writer and gardener of the old school, argues rightly that nature abhors a garden: left to its own devices, your yard will revert to forest or swamp or meadow in a matter of years, if not months. But at the same time, if you are willing to do the work...