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...between the minimalist defense posture of Kennedy and the indiscriminate military spending of the current Administration. On the domestic front, the party must inject a greater degree of fiscal responsibility into existing social programs. It should not immediately bridle at calls to reassess existing entitlement funding, as the Kennedy wing has so often done. An initiative to ease the looming crisis over Social Security—where the Republicans have abdicated all responsibility, resorting instead to mere sloganeering—would be particularly welcome. The Democratic Party remains the best hope for those who long for an America that tends...
...Parisians were alarmed last Thursday when Paris police marched on the National Assembly demanding hazard pay for areas in which Algerian terrorists were active. France is a nation which never lets its history die, and the strike awoke fear of a right-wing Gaullist seizure of extra-legal power...
...thought Reagan would tap his top rival to be his partner. Reagan didn't care for Bush much, found him to be a bit too effete, had not liked the way Bush had handled himself at a few key moments in the primary. Plus, they were from two different wings of the GOP: Reagan hailed from its more conservative, western, anti-government wing; Bush was a legatee of the moderate eastern establishment and had famously called Reagan's tax cutting economic policies a kind of "voodoo...
International art cinema, as opposed to the red-meat Hollywood variety, is a left-wing enterprise. At Cannes, you simply will not find, say, a film on Northern Ireland's Troubles that is sympathetic to its English occupiers, or an Israeli film hostile to the Palestinians. This year, Hunger, the story of IRA leader Bobby Sands' fatal hunger strike in 1981, won the Camera d'Or (debut film) prize for Afro-Irish director Steve McQueen; and Waltz With Bashir, an animated documentary about Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's sense of guilt over the Sabra and Shatila massacres of Palestinian refugees...
...wanted to be left wing for the Boston Bruins. And then my backup to that was to be a star outfielder for the Boston Red Sox. Neither one of those worked out, so, thank God, I ended up doing this...