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...knife me in the chest." So true, even now. In his new book, A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency (Hill and Wang; 647 pages; $35), the patrician Bundy is still inserting the knife in a gentle, gentlemanly way. His title comes from Sir Walter Scott's lines about the "tangled web we weave/ When first we practice to deceive." In assessing Nixon and Kissinger, Bundy comes to the unsurprising conclusion that "the taste for acting secretly was obsessive" and that an "unshakable bent to deceive" undermined their accomplishments...
...contemporary of Nostradamus was Sir Thomas More, whose Utopia was not so much a vision of the future as a vision of a better society and thus a reproach to present evils. But henceforth, Utopian dreams of reform invariably mingled with anticipation of tomorrow. This was particularly true in the 18th century, with the Age of Reason's belief in the perfectibility of human nature and the near inevitability of progress. Revolution was in the air, and revolution itself is a kind of prophecy--a violent prediction...
Steward: Now, now, sir. I'll take the young lady aboard, and you wait for help...
...have "Best Religion" or--especially important--"Best Ethnic Group." Sure, we can vote on whether Football is better than Basketball, but we are denied the opportunity to decide if the "Hello, young lady" man in the square is better than the "Spare any change...ma'am, sir" lady. In short, Parade of Stars is a nice idea, but it completely ignores its larger potential as a venue for deciding who's most popular and what's cool...
...Council Monday. But if Iraqi leaders think their oft-quoted vision of "light at the end of the tunnel" is going to be shared by their 15 adjudicators, they have another think coming. "I predict there will be no agreement to anything being done on sanctions," said British ambassador Sir John Weston. The reason: Richard Butler's claim that UNSCOM has made "virtually no progress" in recent weapons inspections. Even the Russians, who are floating a resolution that would muzzle UNSCOM, balked at the idea of lifting the embargo itself...