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...word. Actually, there seem to be two: George Bush and Michael Dukakis. Bush started his campaign claiming, rightly, that having power and being willing to use it had helped bring the peace. Then he proceeded, wrongly, to rattle our rockets. Dukakis denied, rightly, that military hardware is the sole basis of influence but then, wrongly, jumped in the M1 tank to match Bush. The world waits -- yearns -- for a new political chapter to be written...
...least she's in good company. The shopworn notion that America has been living on credit cards, that the party has to end, that there's no free lunch, and so on and so forth, is not the sole possession of Democratic politicians (who, like Republicans, don't propose to do anything serious about it anyway). Variations on this theme are played in two new books by past heads of President Reagan's own Council of Economic Advisers. Murray Weidenbaum says in Rendezvous with Reality, "We are consuming more than we are producing, borrowing more than we are saving...
Admissions of taboo, often criminal behavior pose a more serious dilemma. In fact, the line has become a repository for confessions of rape, incest, child sexual abuse and murder. The phone company's sole restriction is a ban on playing back such calls to other callers. "I just stabbed my wife and two daughters," one man screamed into the phone. "I buried my wife and daughter in the backyard. My other daughter is buried under the pier." The Los Angeles police, who do not monitor the line, say that it is up to the operators to report likely crimes...
Though reading Monroe's excellent personal introduction, in which he recounts his experiences of growing up and his difficult, still incomplete transition from a Black world to a white one, makes one wonder if talent was really the sole reason Goldman authored Brothers...
Affirmative action programs are based on the assumption that race can be a factor, but not the sole factor, in making hiring decsions. In other words, the candidate must be otherwise qualified. But in the exchange program, the assumption would be that race was indeed the only factor, since the University would be making it clear that it had no intention of ever tenuring the professors, thus distinguishing them from other visiting scholars...