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Harvard draws obsessive people by the hundreds. The average Harvard undergraduate seems distinguished by the fact that he is not average in at least one area; the area may be physics, grade-grubbing, writing, egomania or self-loathing. Most everyone here, for better or worse, developed a trait or interest in childhood that made him a little different...
...reflects that very amplitude of intellectual riches and experience. Debts of Honour is Foot's ode to his political and literary heroes, in 14 fond chapter-biographies. Those idols range from Benjamin Disraeli and Thomas Paine to the Duchess of Marlborough and Jonathan Swift, His heroes usually share one trait: a determined foresight. As he writes in his profile of Disraeli, "the good Tory": "If anything is really to be done in the world, it must be done by visionaries; men who see the future, and make the future because they...
...ANYWAY, IF one's goal is to compromise compassion with realism, then it would seem wiser to start from the point of defending absolute compassion. There will certainly always be someone around who is eager to defend absolute realism; it seems to be an inbred American intellectual trait. And so the compromise will be reached further toward realism if you start at some reasonable middle ground. Tsongas doesn't seem to like the messiness of negotiation; much better, he says, if both sides just decide beforehand that they'll agree on everything. But what if both sides don't decide...
Back in October, that trait was easy to overlook--Haig was only a tough-looking general with visions of grandeur and Reagan was an unemployed ex-governor. Now Haig is the President's Secretary of State, a post which, as many presidents have stressed, should never serve as one man's bully pulpit or stepping stone to the Oval Office. As recent events have shown, Haig has yet to learn that lesson...
...directly manipulating the genes?those tiny command posts of heredity that tell living cells whether they will become bacteria, toads or men. Thus a plant or animal might acquire a characteristic from a totally unrelated species and pass this new trait on to future generations...