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This new drug enforcement policy won't turn the United States into a police state overnight. But every little extension of the military sphere must be taken with extreme caution. We must ask ourselves whether the advantages of military action justify the undermining of civil authority in a given problem area...
...Francisco's landmark Ferry Building last week, steeplejack Jody Mancuso eased herself carefully to the tip of a new white flagpole and crowned it with the same gold-painted sphere that was knocked wildly askew on Oct. 17, 1989, by the strongest earthquake to strike the city since 1906. This week the American flag will be hoisted there once again, to mark the anniversary of last year's temblor, which registered 7.1 on the Richter scale, killed 63 people, injured 3,757 others and caused at least $6 billion in damage...
While Clausewitz called war a continuation of politics by other means, $ economics may become a continuation of war by other means. There may be virulent trade wars among the economic Big Three -- Europe, Japan and America (whose sphere should eventually include Canada and Mexico in an American Economic Community...
...Angeles, noted that Milken has taught math in public schools and helped raise money for minority businesses. Wrote Grier: "I recognized in him a deep desire to help inner-city residents break free of the strangling choke-hold of poverty and begin to move into a new sphere of existence...
...unfair to tell people that privilege has left them dumb of the ways of the world. Such an assertion insults not only their intelligence and autonomy, but compassion. We are all capable of critically evaluating our enviroment, its impact on us and our place in a wider sphere...