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...Charles Krauthammer wrote, "When you live in an age of terrorism with increasingly available weapons of mass destruction, it is the absence of fear that is utterly irrational." But fear has never helped a situation, nor has it ever been the grounds for good judgment. President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." It would be a catastrophic mistake for us to let fear guide our decisions. Fear is the enemy. Michael Kelley Port Charlotte...
...Charles Krauthammer wrote, "When you live in an age of terrorism with increasingly available weapons of mass destruction, it is the absence of fear that is utterly irrational." But fear has never helped a situation, nor has it ever been the grounds for good judgment. President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." It would be a catastrophic mistake for us to let fear guide our decisions. Fear is the ultimate enemy...
History upends both arguments. Roosevelt, Reagan and Clinton all defeated incumbents during economic downturns. The first two won with plans considered radical—Roosevelt wanted to establish a social safety net, and Reagan wanted to dismantle it. Bill Clinton, by contrast, ended 12 years of Republican ascendancy by tacking to the middle on trade, welfare and crime...
DIED. PAUL NITZE, 97, formidable diplomat and negotiator who was one of the principal architects of America's cold war policies toward the Soviet Union; in Washington. Erudite, brash and sometimes irritable, he worked for Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, helping to instigate the postwar Marshall Plan and, in 1950, writing a key paper that urged a U.S. economic and military buildup to "frustrate the Kremlin design of a world dominated by its will." Yet this early cold warrior became better known for his later efforts at conciliation, most notably a famous "walk in the woods" near...
...flow of Harvard life: some poor blocking group is quadded to Currier House, their burning effigy dissolving into destroyed hopes on the otherwise calm Charles. Their friends in Adams laugh at the fountain and the bland white walls, as they whisper thank yous to men like Roosevelt. The quadded kids fight back with one liners about the ten-man, about Heaven and Hell, making good points but missing the true beauty of the house: its design for inevitable community living, defining it as the most successful House-system residence...