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Sixteen years later, I'm still a wishful thinker. I always look on the bright side, probably because I am deeply anxious about the possibility that I'll err on the low side and someone will call me a cynic. Call me a cynic...
Patricia Coleman, one of Doc Britton's five children, says, "My father was an independent thinker who absolutely refused to be swayed by politics or what other people thought. He refused to be bullied." Yet some of his surviving colleagues are feeling vulnerable. "This has taken its toll," says Ashley Phillips, director of the WomanCare clinic in San Diego. "I don't know how much more of this we're supposed to take." Following the killing, several members of Congress demanded that the FBI begin infiltrating radical antiabortionist groups as it has the Ku Klux Klan in the past. Harsh...
...could. This means: I took my aptitude for love as far as I could At the frontiers of my aptitudes I found my shortcomings. When I failed in an ultimate way, I knew it was time to retrench. Now I know I can forgive all that. (A moral thinker who has learned to forgive himself is obviously soon to retire...
Look. It is one thing for snobbish European intellectuals to take American trivia seriously. Disneyana is the favorite mirror of America -- succeeding Luigi Barzini's insufficiently satiric suggestion of baseball -- for every European thinker from Umberto Eco on down. It was Eco who in his 1975 essay "Travels in Hyperreality" gave a deep and dark and ironic account of Pirates of the Caribbean as "more real than reality." Heavy implications followed...
Such adroitness comes naturally to a Fed chairman who has been in political training all his life and has managed to serve an extraordinary number of masters. A former student of the Juilliard school of music and a disciple of libertarian thinker Ayn Rand, Greenspan first entered politics as a domestic adviser to Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign and rose to hold key economic posts under five Presidents. He suffered his greatest embarrassment in 1985 when, as a private economist, Greenspan wrote letters to regulators and Congress endorsing Charles Keating and his Lincoln savings and loan. Lincoln subsequently collapsed...