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...case is Buchanan. An affable and engaging man, a man of proven political courage and loyalty, he has taken to trafficking in nativism, authoritarianism, isolationism and anti-Semitism. The narrow and angry conservatism that Buchanan represents does not just violate the optimistic, expansive spirit of Reaganism. It is the surest ticket back to the intellectual and political marginality in which conservatism languished before Buckley began cleaning up the movement four decades...
Americans are desperately concerned about the corrupting effects of the mass culture on their children. They are rightly aroused by grade school curriculums that present homosexuality as just another life-style choice. They know instinctively that single parenthood, for all the heroism it summons from women, is the surest path to childhood poverty. They want to rebuild "family values" -- but they refuse to see the rebuilding as an act of religious war. And when they hear their concerns transmuted into appeals to intolerance, they tune...
...form been so commercially successful and artistically exhilarating. Moreover, at a time when mass art is fragmented, even divisive -- when virtually no species of entertainment has universal appeal -- the hip, comic ingenuity and emotional breadth of the best cartoons reunite the consumers of popular culture with Hollywood's surest instinct to please in a vast Saturday matinee of the spirit...
...quickest exit from gang life is via the morgue. The surest route is a one-way ticket out of the old neighborhood. For most young gang members, that leaves no choice at all. "Just to walk away and get out? God, you may get killed," says Daniel Swope, executive director of a community group called BUILD in Chicago. "You make a commitment, and it's lifelong...
...surest way to bring back passengers is also the most painful: a fare war. British Airways fired the first shot Feb. 9 with its plan to cut transatlantic fares for summer travel one-third. U.S. carriers responded with fare cuts of up to 50%, but U.S. Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner rejected all cuts, including the British Airways request. The decision is widely viewed as retaliation for London's foot dragging in approving the sale of Pan Am's and TWA's London routes. TWA said it will be forced into bankruptcy if the sale isn't approved soon. Skinner permitted...