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...campaign forces Likud to veer farther right and Labor farther left. And any party that wins just 1% of the vote -- a mere 17,000 ballots -- is guaranteed a seat. Since neither Labor nor Likud has ever won more than 56 seats in the parliament, the splinter groups wield enormous power when it comes time to form a government...
That the University now may be willing to divest from tobacco companies to protest their unethical business dealings in other countries seems to be an immense inconsistency. Harvard should wield its influence as a stockholder to influence the tobacco companies--even though it still hasn't used that weapon to retaliate against companies for their involvement in the apartheid state...
...Myth of Psychological Healing." Readers looking for nuance or subtlety should probably go elsewhere. But Masson raises some intriguing points, even if he insists on doing so at the top of his voice. Psychotherapy is a big and largely unchallenged business in the U.S.; many of its practitioners wield considerable influence over personal lives and public policy. Once in a while, it does no harm to listen to an alarmist hollering that some of those shrinks have no clothes...
With a huge and loyal constituency, Jackson should be able to wield influence in this fall's election. But it seems ever more likely that the Jackson campaign of 1988 will go the way of the Jackson campaign of 1984--ceasing to matter after the convention. Unless he chooses to make a dramatic turn either in favor of or antagonistic to the party's all-but-certain nominee, Michael S. Dukakis, Jackson will be of no more significance in the fall election than the other five dwarves who failed to capture the nomination...
...upon that country for continued support. Japan has bought up Western banks and corporations, making its mark in the private sector. Even state governments are clamoring for the investment of what is now the world's foremost economic power. Japan does not simply control lands and stocks; it can wield its financial control to influence American policy...