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...Macaulay told an American, "Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor." (A foreigner's elegant remark. Others suspect that the Constitution has entirely too much anchor -- too many checks and balances -- to make any headway at all.) The sociologist David Riesman likens the Constitution to the shallow keel of the national ferryboat, on which the passengers keep shifting from port to starboard and back again. One might also suggest the image of a trimaran -- a craft with three hulls (Legislative, Executive and Judicial) that is both stable and fast. Harvard's Paul Freund likes to think of the whole...
...innocent child possessed by the devil. A shark with a strange taste for shallow waters (and careless swimmers). An actor willing to sell his soul in exchange for a decent role. A good horror movie can be outlined in a sentence...
...broke the story alleging that Michael Deaver had improperly used his White House ties to advance his lobbying business and, two months ago, revealed Mobil Oil's decision to move its headquarters from Manhattan to suburban Washington. Though the Times has serious weaknesses (its national political coverage is abysmally shallow, for example), its strengths include a scrappy metropolitan staff, lively cultural reporting, and a generous amount of foreign news for a publication its size. "The paper you see now is not the paper we saw five years ago," says Press Critic Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution...
Like Gary Hart ((NATION, May 18)), I am an angry, defiant man. Having endured the shallow Reagan Administration, I do not believe the nation can afford another political debacle in 1988. So I am angry that Hart would take the Democratic presidential nomination so lightly. I defy him to convince me that his behavior was not selfish and stupid...
...Navy should concentrate more on its less glamorous time-honored role -- which happens to be what the Stark was doing last week. One problem, however, is that the vulnerability and cost of America's large aircraft carriers mean that the Navy does not feel safe stationing one inside the shallow and crowded waters of the Persian Gulf, thus making air cover for ships in the region more difficult...