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...protest without a program is mere sentimentality, as a political theorist wrote. Buckley's opinions have always proceeded not from emotion but from a structure of thought - agree with it or not. He appeals to the standard of "right reason." "However caught up you are in the romanticisms which sweep the world," he suggested modestly to an audience in the irrational year of 1970, "you will not deny the occasional uses of reason...
...March: Rudenstine becomes the first Harvard president to visit mainland China, with an 11-day sweep through Beijing and Hong Kong along with Taipei. He returns to East Asia during the summer to visit Japan and Korea. The trips are intended to build educational ties and fundraising efforts in Asia...
...Americans have a debt problem? Big time. Nearly 14% of our disposable income goes to repay loans, the highest level since 1986, according to economist Cynthia Latta at Standard & Poor's. Credit-card debt and total household debt are at record highs relative to personal income. Even if you sweep aside thoughts of recession, it still makes sense to pay down debt as rates rise. Most debt, including credit cards, home-equity lines and many mortgages, carries variable rates, so your costs will be increasing...
...Clinton served up more than 1,000 pages of health-care-reform proposals for their opponents to pick apart in 1993, pols have erred on the side of vagueness (not that this was an entirely undiscovered path to political success). In 1994 Newt Gingrich used poll-tested platitudes to sweep Republicans into power. A year later, when Gingrich got down to the prosaic details of governing, like offering specific Medicare-spending controls, the public--egged on by Clinton--rebelled. The lesson: be vague. There's a corollary: if you must be specific, then be inoffensive. That's partly how Clinton...
Ravagers, despoilers, pagans, heathens--such epithets pretty well summed up the Vikings for those who lived in the British Isles during medieval times. For hundreds of years after their bloody appearance at the end of the 8th century A.D., these ruthless raiders would periodically sweep in from the sea to kill, plunder and destroy, essentially at will. "From the fury of the Northmen, deliver us, O Lord" was a prayer uttered frequently and fervently at the close of the first millennium. Small wonder that the ancient Anglo-Saxons--and their cultural descendants in England, the U.S. and Canada--think...