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...attendant to David Stockman's telling us what most of us already knew [Nov. 23], there is something disturbing about the fetish of dogged fidelity to leadership that has become so fashionable in recent Administrations. Like most other virtues, loyalty in moderation is a noble trait. Of late, however, it has taken on exaggerated proportions that are inimical to a democratic society. As currently defined, team playing does more than merely quash originality. It vouch safes us a generation of faceless robots to whom individual responsibility is equated with treason. In the extreme analysis, Adolf Eichmann...
That is one trait Nitze has in common with Kvitsinsky. The son of an emigrant Polish engineer, Kvitsinsky grew up in Siberia. Assigned to East Germany from 1959 to 1965 and to West Germany since 1978, he is one of Moscow's large corps of German experts. It may, indeed, be the reason Kvitsinsky was chosen for the Geneva assignment. With his impressive command of German language, history and culture, he will be well placed to promote the Soviet Union's image as a peace-loving nation to West German missile opponents through the press and television...
...plenty of the Beethoven and Brahms symphonies as a musical diet for all seasons. Another is that American orchestras, when they venture beyond the classics, feel an obligation to home-grown composers. Further, they may be predisposed against British music on account of its sometimes folkish nature, a trait that does not hinder appreciation of Bartok or Stravinsky, both of whom made extensive use of folk music...
Discrediting this notion must be done carefully because myths frequently have bases in facts, and intelligence differentiation has long been a subject of research. Most everyone today knows of Arthur R. Jensen, who asserts that Blacks are less intelligent that whites on the basis of IQ scores--a trait he says is largely inherited. And his work is only the latest of many. From early in the 19th century to the present, dozens of scientists have weighed brains, measured skulls, and tested millions, sometimes concluding that the African mind stood about midway between the Caucasian and gorilla in intelligence. Though...
...Tuesday, Mubarak had won 98.46% of the vote in the national referendum that elected him President. In his address to parliament the following day, he spoke with authority and emotion, seemingly making a conscious effort to transform himself from an understudy into a national leader. "He has an important trait," said one former parliamentarian. "He listens, and in this part of the world we need a leader who listens...