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...this from a man who was a virtual unknown outside of the business community a few years ago. Ueberroth founded and built from scratch a multi-million dollar travel company, and he has achieved his success by exploiting the patriotic values of hard work and clean living. First as the Olympic organizer who made the carrying of the torch a national happening and then as the visible mover and shaker in the apple-pie job of baseball commissioner, Ueberroth has touched a chord of Americana. It is a call coinciding with the rejuvenated patriotism that is the hallmark...
...receive U.S. support, the forces that lead to dictatorship are usually beyond American control. Take Haiti. It may be possible to bring about a lessening of corruption and brutality. But no amount of American intervention will soon turn that country into a democracy, since politically it is starting from scratch, with a literacy rate of 30% and an annual per capita income...
...were designing, as a liberal, from scratch a group--a mechanism for protecting free speech--it would look a lot like the CRR," says Professor of Government and CRR member Robert Putnam...
...suspicious craft, they quickly calculate which law- enforcement boats or planes can make the fastest interception. Then they dispatch the police craft with a state-of-the-art radio network that puts dozens of federal and local agencies on the same wavelength. Customs Service technicians built the system from scratch, starting with computer software borrowed from the Pentagon. "We're light-years ahead of the military. I'm very proud of it," says Michael Wewers, a Customs Service special agent...
Although the Cornell and Harvard men's hockey teams have been invited for a 7:30 p.m. rumba, scratch Cornell's Duanne Moeser, and Harvard's Chris Biotti and Allen Bourbeau from the guest list...