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...born over lunch. Supply-side economics flowered in 1974 when economist Arthur Laffer drew tax and revenue curves on a cocktail napkin. For communitarianism, the seminal breaking of the bread came last summer at the faculty club at George Washington University, where Etzioni teaches; his luncheon companion was political scientist William Galston, the issues director of Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign. Sensing a shared perspective, Etzioni plied Galston with hypothetical conflicts. Are sobriety checkpoints for drivers of motor vehicles an infringement of civil liberties? What should the police be legitimately allowed to do to disrupt open-air drug markets...
Observers say it is unlikely that the committee will select Hood, a scientist from outside the University, when three Harvard scientists are on the list. And Breyer, who was once leading candidate to be dean of the Law School, is no longer an academic...
...strong feeling among insiders that the University will select a scientist to take the helm means that Knowles and McElroy--two popular members of the Faculty--cannot be counted...
Anti-American rhetoric by Islamic extremists in Tehran is not to be taken seriously. "It is for domestic, anti-imperialist consumption that the so- called radicals shout warmongering slogans against the Americans," says an Iranian political scientist living in Paris. "Even the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are in no mood to join the hostilities...
...ideology of the Middle East is anti-Americanism," says Asad Abdul Rahman, a political scientist at Jordan University. "Regimes that are seen as nothing but stooges of the Americans could be toppled. That could be coupled with all kinds of violence, anti-American acts, the establishment of radical regimes." Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is considered particularly exposed because he has allied himself so closely with the U.S. Says Amos Perlmutter, a political scientist at American University in Washington: "Mubarak will be in the cross hairs of every terrorist...