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...close friend James Baker would be Secretary of State, he tapped Nicholas Brady to remain as Treasury Secretary. Bush promised to name the rest of his economic team promptly and hold budget talks with congressional leaders before his Inauguration; he started Friday by having lunch with House Speaker Jim Wright. But all the while, Bush clung to his conviction, shared by Brady, that the economy could grow its way out of the deficit without new taxes or serious spending cuts. "Our most important priority is to keep our economy growing with low inflation," he said. "We must resist the policies...
Nevertheless, a Bush peace initiative would have a chance. His stump speech avoided personal attacks on Hill leaders. When Dukakis started scoring heavily on Ed Meese and sleaze, Bush countered with a call for an investigation of House Majority Leader Jim Wright, but quickly dropped the matter after Meese resigned. Similarly, even while his old Texas friend Lloyd Bentsen was attacking him daily on the stump, often in intimate terms, Bush avoided even a single personal criticism of the powerful Senate Finance Committee chairman throughout the entire campaign...
...book continues, its two strands, scientific exposition and scientific biography, come together as we begin to glimpse the deep rationale behind it. Wright's purpose is not merely to understand the nature of meaningful information; it is to explore the meaning of life and what modern science has to say on the value of human existence. His method shows that abstract theories of information are ultimately still the products of individual thinkers...
...scientific world view gives our lives no objective value or intrinsic purpose. We cannot blindly follow our biological imperatives, for if we did, something of our humanity would be lost. We are evolution's orphans. Our intellectual integrity does not allow us to abandon science, yet Wright wishes that somehow it gave more metaphysical comfort...
...PLAINLY, Wright wants concrete answers to the great doubts that most of us sometimes confront, but he is under no illusion that these scientists provide them. They are making guesses, as we are. Theirs are perhaps more educated, but in the end, their actions seem more eloquent than their words. They have lived their lives with a passion for knowledge, the same passion that motivated Wright to give us this book, and to write it so well...