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...baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...before domestic support collapsed. The Iraq crisis is only 4 1/ 2 months old, and there has not been a single U.S. combat death. Yet some sectors of the home front are already in the throes of a full-scale antiwar movement. Bush's attempt to fill the conceptual vacuum left by the end of the cold war with talk about a new world order apparently works better in the United Nations than in the United States...
Attempts by several states to fill the policy vacuum floundered this year, and the tactics of the environmental lobby were at least partly responsible. The contest over California's "Big Green," Proposition 128, for instance, was marked by overstatement on both sides of the issue. Prominent environmentalists, including EPA Administrator William Reilly, were troubled by the sweep of some of Big Green's provisions, like the pesticide curbs that would have banned any chemical found to cause cancer in any rat. Given the legitimate debate over many of the provisions in the proposition's 16,000 words, it was entirely...
...well in France. "I don't necessarily mean to be derogatory. The Europeans have always been fascinated by wanting to know what's going on with this big, ogreish subcontinent across the Atlantic, this potentially dangerous, constantly mysterious country called the U.S. of A." American popular culture fills a vacuum, vulgar or not. "French television is a wasteland; ours is a madhouse. But at least it's vital," says Styron. "Dallas and Knots Landing and the American game shows are filling a need in France...
...correct that the problem isn't so much a vacuum of leadership as it is a political brawl for leadership -- among the supporters of the human genome project, the AIDS lobby, cancer researchers...