Word: richarde
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...improvement in Soviet behavior is in response to American firmness. State Department officials dismiss talk about Soviet "initiatives" or a Soviet "peace offensive," since those phrases suggest that Mikhail Gorbachev is leading the way toward a more tranquil future. "Insofar as Gorbachev is now more peacefully inclined," says Richard Solomon, director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, "it's because he's butting his head up against new realities, notably including the Reagan Doctrine...
Though historians will give him a rough time because of the impact of some of his policies, even the toughest appraisals will have to recognize successes that seemed impossible eight years ago. Reagan's four immediate predecessors presided over a frightening decline in presidential authority. Neither Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford nor Jimmy Carter could manage two full terms. Their serial failures left the presidency bordering on decrepitude. That an elderly celluloid cowboy from California unencumbered by heavy intellect, workaholism or Washington experience might halt that decline was inconceivable to the Eastern smart set. Yet Reagan not only arrested...
...burden of balancing academics and athletics has occasionally taken its toll on athletes at Harvard. Richard Knight '90 was in line to become a starter on this year's soccer squad, but decided to sit out the season in order to concentrate on academics...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Richard M. Cohen, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
Washington: Strobe Talbott, Stanley W. Cloud, David Aikman, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Michael Duffy, Glenn Garelik, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Richard Hornik, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Naushad S. Mehta, Marguerite Michaels, Priscilla Painton, Raji Samghabadi, Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: James Carney Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka...