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Should the gray wolf, today an endangered species in most of the U.S., be re-established in Yellowstone? An old stockman at a meeting at Laramie, Wyo., shakes with rage at the notion; the idea is like reintroducing smallpox. But to wolf partisans, the bedrock argument is a brooding, circular truth: without wolves, there are no wolves. These complex, mysterious animals are their own justification. Beyond that, biologists see predators as balance wheels in ecosystems. No wolves mean too many elk, which is what Yellowstone has now, starving by the thousands in winter die-offs...
...draw a line between Eastern ecobabblers, who puff wolves as gallant symbols of wildness, and true Westerners, who know them as cruel and cowardly and who can be relied on to "shoot, shovel and shut up," as the brag goes in the cowboy bars. But, Brad Little, a stockman from Emmett, Idaho, concedes, "It's not so much wolves we're afraid of, it's wolf managers." Exactly. The wolves themselves, though they are sure to range beyond park boundaries, are likely to be more an annoyance than a danger to farmers. In northern Minnesota, where some 1,200 wolves...
Richard Darman was an anonymous White House staffer seven years ago, still struggling to make his place among Reaganauts suspicious of his moderate politics, but he knew what job would suit him next. If his ally David Stockman, then the embattled Budget Director, departed, Darman thought himself a natural for the Office of Management and Budget. Word of his ambition seeped out. A newspaper column scoffing at his qualifications got big play in Boston, and his ailing father saw it. The younger Darman seethed, and not only because of the criticism. Later he confided that he was upset partly because...
...adds, "That's the most important short thing I've ever said about myself." Realism, of course, often serves as a respectable disguise for political expedience. Eight years ago this month, he was the first White House insider to warn his colleagues that Reaganomics was flawed. He and Stockman later considered sabotaging Reagan's 1981 tax-reduction bill. Concessions to assorted special interests, necessary to overcome the Democrats' competing proposal, were becoming prohibitively expensive. Instead he pressed ahead, matching the Democratic version in what amounted to a bidding war, betting that the damage could be repaired the same year with...
...then did the Bush team pull off such a miraculous deficit disappearing act? Budget Director Richard Darman came up with a solution so Machiavellian that it had eluded even that past master of cooked books, David Stockman. The Darman doctrine: If the numbers are inconvenient, let someone else add them up. It was a refined version of the same strategy that Bush himself promoted during his campaign with his numbers-fudging talk of a "flexible freeze...