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...will remain the one reigning military superpower in this less heavily armed world. Its forces will shrink considerably to enable it to concentrate more of its energies on economic and social advances, but it will continue to provide global outreach with state-of-the-art weapons and an invulnerable nuclear arsenal. The U.S. will have to preserve this role because the technical know-how to build nuclear weapons cannot be abolished no matter how carefully arms-control treaties are drafted. Truly determined governments, among them many smaller nations that covet prestige and power, cannot be prevented from buying or building...
...collective mental breakdown? Does the team need a shrink...
...always a swear word in America, has now become a deadly insult -- though it is a little hard to understand why. Are we just learning that politicians say one thing to get elected and do something entirely different once they win? Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt both promised to shrink the government's powers when campaigning, and both men expanded those powers as President. The politician is evasive if not duplicitous? The method of choosing candidates is arbitrary if not corrupt? The candidate hides his or her real views while trying to please diverse constituencies? All that has been true...
...September 1987, Sulzberger recalls, just before he became deputy publisher, he held in his hands the fattest paper in New York Times history; a few weeks later, after the stock market crashed 500 points, advertising fell, and the paper began to shrink. "Suddenly we were no longer talking about the Grand Plan but about how to control the descent," he says. Spending was frozen on the business side and buyouts were offered. But the Times never stopped hiring reporters, because "somewhere in there is an assistant managing editor in 20 years...
...classic Peeping Tom. What's fun here is that De Palma has rung cunning changes on Hitchcockian twists. What if the car that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing to save her life? What if abnormal Norman were to be questioned by the shrink who has decoded his warped family life? And what if Norman were to escape from custody to reveal an even creepier secret...