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Direct elections for individual committees and a "clearinghouse style body" are inefficient ideas that would decentralize the Council to the point of utter chaos. Connor's last suggestion of "following the money" reflects a deplorable lack of research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Restructuring Would Risk Disaster | 10/18/1990 | See Source »

...deficit estimate to $159 billion, up from $138 billion just a month before. Unless a plan for cutting almost $100 billion could be produced by Oct. 1, spending cuts required by Gramm-Rudman would force the layoff of thousands of government workers. Within days, Administration officials began to utter dire predictions. It was the perfect opportunity for a sudden conversion, and Bush took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dick Darman: Man in The Muddle | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...question now is not will apartheid continue, but how to dismantle it so that utter chaos does not result. Without such stability, no social reform will be able to take place, and underlying social issues in South Africa--far beyond "one man, one vote"--will not be addressed...

Author: By Jennifer Griffin, | Title: Divestment Won't Help Anymore | 10/4/1990 | See Source »

...however, the promise of gene therapy appears to outweigh any potential pitfalls. And the acceptance of the new techniques is particularly sweet for longtime advocates. "Twenty years ago, you couldn't utter the phrase gene therapy without being told you were talking nonsense," says Dr. Theodore Friedmann, a molecular geneticist at the University of California, San Diego. "Now it's taken for granted that it's coming." He sees the day when doctors will be able to treat not only the thousands of diseases caused by a single faulty gene but even complex disorders like Parkinson's and Alzheimer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Giant Step for Gene Therapy | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...Seven Deadly Sins (Is it covered under Wrath?) and why the Old Testament is so full of hate, I ; stared at the back of Nelson Mandela's head as he sat at the conference table -- a nimbus of television light around his charcoal hair, the man enveloped in utter stillness, the most thorough self-possession I have ever beheld. Does 27 years in prison make a man so calm? As I listened to Gunter Grass (a stolid German with some huge gravity pulling him earthward) discussing the Nazis, my mind drifted to Vaclav Havel, who I decided is an alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Anatomy of Hate | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

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