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This is only part of the answer, says Carnegie-Mellon University Professor Alfred Blumstein. The full explanation, he says, is "demographics plus toughness." Many criminal-justice experts are disturbed by the rigid form that the new toughness has taken. Since the mid-1970s nearly all states have passed some form...
B.U. didn't get many chances to come back. Its best was a power play late in the period, in which it tested Blair with four hard but tutile slapshots in quick succession.
But there were deep contradictions in Kennedy's foreign policy, conflicts in which an old view of the world and an emerging view competed with each other. Part of him retained the mentality of the cold war, a kind of Dulles-like brinkmanship. At the same time, a succession...
The setting last week was a session of the House Budget Committee, and the subject was deficits. Peering from behind his oversize tortoise-shell glasses, Martin Feldstein, the scholarly chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, patiently explained once again the harmful impact on the U.S. economy of a succession...
A post-Hemingway adventurer like Russel Price (Nick Nolte) does not, of course, permit himself to articulate such aspiring thoughts. With his thick voice, his beefy former jock's build and his wary-passive manner, Nolte plays Price (very authentically) as a man who is all reflexes of the...