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Realpolitikers will grumble: too bad she doesn't have Marshall's billions of dollars to rearrange the world. Yet Albright is already off to prove that her outlook can shape the day-to-day business of U.S. diplomacy. During the trip she will begin next week to nine key powers in Europe and Asia, she plans to coax the world's major players into working "together to develop the international system as we're going into the 21st century." That's what another of her predecessors, George Shultz, once adroitly called "gardening"--the diplomacy of nurturing foreign relationships so they...
...danker parts of the psyche. Cose quotes anthropologist Ashley Montagu, who more than 50 years ago wrote, "'Race' is the witchcraft of our time. The means by which we exorcise demons." Modern biology takes a similar though less dramatic view. At the cellular level, characteristics such as head shape or skin pigmentation are considered superficial variations in the species. To a geneticist, color-coding Homo sapiens looks more like a cultural than a scientific imperative...
...Coop should be a co-op first, a tourist gift shop second. We are not afraid to say that we do not like the Coop. If it does not shape up, we will look forward to its demise...
Both countries emphasize that the dispute will have no serious effect on their close alliance. The German embassy in Washington says the relationship is obviously in good shape if this is the biggest problem it has to deal with. Last week's State Department report also points to "some positive developments": Bonn has decided not to put Scientology under federal surveillance and concluded there is no evidence that the church has committed criminal acts. In spite of the public argument, both capitals think they can quietly agree to disagree on the issue--if the Scientologists will let them...
...city hubs and jobs away from the pilots who fly there. American management is pushing the pilots to accept binding arbitration, but that process could take two years and the union calls it a delay tactic. Working now on a contract negotiated when American was in poor financial shape, the pilots haven't had a raise since 1993, and demand an 11-percent raise over four years. Crandall, fearing another downturn in the cyclical airline business, feels that giving too much now may cost the airline dearly later. But a strike could cost more -- the airline stands to lose more...