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...RESTS, albeit precariously, with Duarte. True, rumors abound that a Duarte victory would prompt a coup by the extremist parts of the army, who view Duarte as a dyed-in-the-wool Communist. But most sections of the armed forces will move probably regard a Duarte government at the surest way to keep the dollars coming...
This should be obvious; we see examples such as the Kennedy family, which went from bootlegging to political eminence in just one generation. More broadly, we find that one of the surest ways to escape getting convicted of a crime is to achieve middle-class standing. Consider the opening paragraph of this New York Times article, quoted in Jeffrey Reiman's The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison...
...consultants advise clients that the surest way to protect their information is to put their computers under lock and key. But as networks of computers connected by phone lines grow, that kind of isolation becomes irrelevant. More elaborate precautions like passwords, dedicated telephone lines and voice analyzers offer some degree of security. Encryption, which scrambles messages, is perhaps the best way to protect data sent over the wires. It is expensive (up to $5,000 per terminal) and difficult to use. Nonetheless, for those willing to pay the price, the technology for protection exists...
...wittiest, if not the surest, books are the Gault/Millau guides (Crown; $11.95 each) to Paris, London, New York and France. The work of two dedicated French cuisinartistes, to whom a badly cooked meal is a personal, nay national, affront, Henri Gault and Christian Millau's assessments of hotels and restaurants are unfortunately often more informed with high passion than sound taste. More reliable is the august Guide Michelin, long the three-starred supreme arbiter of hotels, restaurants and touring, not so much written as compiled as if by God himself...
Four thousand Israelis took to the streets to protest against their own government because Arabs had been killed, and forced it to undertake an inquiry, in stark contrast to the throngs of Arabs who cheered when Israeli athletes were murdered in Munich. These people, in this democracy, are the surest guarantees "of deterring individuals from future wrong...