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...enduring source of astonishment. It should not be. Once you decide to murder every Jew in Europe, Auschwitz follows logically. Once you have decided that the city is parasitic on the countryside (Khieu Samphan, leader of the Khmer Rouge, decided that at the Sorbonne and made it a tenet of his doctoral thesis), then the forced emptying of Cambodian cities at the cost of millions of lives follows logically. After all, the extirpation of parasites is a public service. Once you have decided, as did Ayatullah Khomeini, to redeem the Islamic world from idolatry, and once you believe...
There is an even deeper connection between Gorbachev's domestic reforms and his proclaimed foreign policy goals. "I don't remember who," Gorbachev said in his 1985 interview with TIME, "but somebody said that foreign policy is a continuation of domestic policy." That tenet, as he no doubt knew, was from Lenin: "There is no more erroneous or harmful idea than the separation of foreign from internal policy...
...presidency promising to overcome the often paralyzing effects of such a national state of mind and "get America moving again." But a renewed skepticism about public figures, be they political or religious leaders, need not be something to dread. In fact, it is something to be desired, a basic tenet of any truly democratic democratic theory...
This alleged tenet of the Yuppie faith is being put to the test by several companies recruiting graduating seniors on campus this semester. Of the 150 companies which will come to Harvard over the next several weeks to lure seniors, eight--including the prestigious investment banking firms Kidder, Peabody and Morgan, Stanley--have informed the Office of Career Services (OCS) that applicants vying for positions with them have to undergo drug-testing before being hired...
Modern man, however, suffers from anomie. He is alienated. In short, he is unhappy. His tenet of faith is that what you see is all there is. He lives his life accordingly...