Word: weaknessness
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GIVEN an international situation in a remarkable state of flux, it is particularly disturbing to think of the immobility and ineffectiveness of our government in addressing its own problems. It is perhaps not surprising that President Bush began his term on a cautious, vigilant note. However, even though Bush did...
Now based in Los Angeles, Reingold enjoys peering ahead into the Pacific century. "Our main weakness in dealing with Japan is that we have not really understood it or had a coherent policy," he says. "We need to realize that its political economy is a type unto itself. It's...
Cavazos' boosters say his determination to forge agreement rather than dictate policy has been misinterpreted as a sign of weakness. "Cavazos has brought a willingness to listen and a less combative tone than we've had in the past," says Wilmer Cody, Louisiana's superintendent of education. "It's a...
Even after ten years and three election victories, Margaret Thatcher is not a beloved or even an especially liked figure in Britain. She never has been. And yet -- despite a midterm slump in the polls -- she would probably win a fourth election tomorrow, and will probably win one two or...
In his introduction to a 1965 reissue of Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children, the poet and critic Randall Jarrell defined a novel as "a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it." Stead's celebrated book was indeed lengthy and imperfect. But it had...