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...they can ill afford to lose any. Much of Middle America remains convinced that deficits represent fiscal irresponsibility; explaining to constituents that deficits only represent national loans against future budgets hasn't won too many elections. But Congress would be wise to oppose the amendment vigorously, for it is rife with complications--and in tampering with the Constitution, it could conceivably mortgage the nation's future more than any deficit, even Ronald Reagan...
...paid lip service to protecting civil servants? . . . Why not call them whistleblowers and let it go at that? . . . Why do some venture? And why do others fear to tread? Why do most of those who don't step out inevitably turn against those who do? Why, in a society rife with corruption and vulnerable to environmental disaster, does it seem to be a national policy to discourage inside witnesses? And what, if anything, is the public going to do about...
...first glance this new type of consulting appears attractive--allowing for the transfer of ideas and technology from the University to the marketplace without endangering the ideals of academic freedom. However, the new consulting arrangement is also rife with possibilities for conflicts of interest...
...savage blast in the Liberation Army Daily against the now banned Unrequited Love, the regime also signaled its intent to make liberal artists toe the party line. In the first place, the commentary charged that the script was rife with "anarchy, extreme individualism and bourgeois liberalism." It even took aim at the movie's recurrent image of flying geese in formation-a sinister symbol of emigration from China. Furthermore, it said, the gloomy picture that Unrequited Love drew of the Cultural Revolution besmirched the party's leadership. Said the commentary: "Criticizing mistakes of the party is not patriotism...
...WANING YEARS of student radicalism saw the South African system of apartheid as perhaps the ultimate symbol of social injustice in a world rife with oppression and misery. The obvious link between the subjugation of the country's Black population and our corporate brand of capitalism provided an easy target for the self-righteous indignation that is the unique province of student protest. There were cries of anger for Harvard to divest all its holdings in corporations dealing with South Africa. Students responded with moral outrage to charges that such an action would have no effect on corporate policy...