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...fighter's business, which may also be his pleasure, is hurting people; because it is the public's pleasure too, he is paid for his work. It would be nice if this walking keg of testosterone believed that what he does is just a job, a dispassionate display of skill, and that his ferocious aggression is merely an attitude to be shucked along with his mouthpiece after the final bell. Nice, but not likely...
...Good family policy is cost effective. The confusion and stress and emotional deprivation in the home are robbing our children of the chance to succeed. We are facing a growing labor shortage in this country. Yet because of the rising skill demands of the workplace, many of our dropouts are simply unemployable. A technology-based economy cannot absorb workers who are not literate and who lack rudimentary mathematical skills...
There was an important difference between Bush and Reagan in this regard. No one had ever questioned Reagan's conservative credentials, so Reagan was all but invulnerable to the vigilantes of the hard right. Also, as a virtuoso political showman in his own right, Reagan appreciated the skill with which Gorbachev manipulated appearances, creating the impression of mastery and leadership even as he raised one white flag after another over the parapet of Soviet power...
...display of his head-counting skill, Bonior predicted he would receive 160 votes in the whip's race to 95 for Maryland's flamboyant Steny Hoyer. Bonior was right on the money on his own total, but underestimated Hoyer's strength by 14. When he begins to hunt down Democrats who do not always hew to party orthodoxy, Bonior will need to look no farther than the mirror: though generally a liberal, he is strongly antiabortion and vows to "continue to vote my conscience...
During the same period, De Klerk has shown impressive skill at outmaneuvering Mandela and maintaining control of the transition process. He enjoys strong support from whites and blacks alike. "This is not a regime that is collapsing," says Lawrence Schlemmer, director of Johannesburg's Center for Policy Studies. The government's competency has frustrated the A.N.C. Most galling of all has been the success that De Klerk has had in being welcomed by black African leaders the congress considers close allies...